A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

It's just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure.

Help your child see others' emotions as well as experiencing his or her own without imposing your judgment.

... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370)

I'm a very basic dresser. I'm not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable.

Motivation comes from effort.

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity.

Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.