A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.