Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!