We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, and he's got this sharp beak that's facing out to the world.He's okay for now.

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.