Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.
In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.
You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.
The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.