A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.