In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.

We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.

Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'