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.

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

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

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

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