I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes for a stutter; and Homer was blind. Socrates couldn't manage his wife, and infuriated his countrymen. And what about Jesus, if we need an ultimate example of failure with one's peers? Or an ultimate example of love?

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

In my dreams, I never have an age.