Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.