On the other side of pain, there is still love.

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

You learn to write by doing it.

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.