We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

Parents sometimes simply don't have enough hands and time and attention to do all that is urgent. But in all things there is a priority of importance....and one of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask, that they aren't always teachable, that they won't always listen.

May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we neglect the divine . . . and give ourselves over wholly to the human," he said, "we may certainly count upon nothing but the triumph of pessimism. . . . True optimism must rest upon a calm, unshakable faith in eternal life and in the unlimited goodness of him who gives it."

One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.