She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

The world was hers for the reading.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.

If you want it, work for it.

Determination and focus is all it takes to achieve success.

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.

Employees leave where they work. Employers live where they work.

Secrets are never so dangerous as when they've been forgotten.

The right way to pray then is any way that allows us to communicate with God.

I say stick with Mother Nature as much as possible.

we give each other a smile with a future in it

Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.