I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

What is it?” “A prayer.” “For a child?” She nodded. “For me?” Another nod. “On a tree?” “Trees spend all day looking up at God.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.