Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

Do not dare not to dare.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.