Because that is how one survives eternity, ” I say, “or even a few years. Friends. Family. Moving with them. Moving forward.

I think, ' Hoa says slowly, 'that if you love someone, you don't get to choose how they love you back.

But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.

How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?

She has seen him fight his own brutal nature, and the Earth itself, in order to be the parent she needs. He has helped her learn to love herself for what she is.

My dreams were all my own

When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained.

Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.