Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now.Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).

Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.

New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility.... It will change you.

I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.

Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.