I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.

School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?