Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

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

But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator, imagining the setting of the story, visualizing the characters, seeing facial expressions, hearing the inflection of voices. The author and the reader "know" each other; they meet on the bridge of words.