You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.

That was the nature of the waters. You never knew what lurked below.

The world is progressing. One man cannot slow it, no matter how determined he is."He stopped in the

So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?

You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?

We talkin' bout practice?

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.

Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.

The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.'

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?

Everybody keeps falling back to the same patterns without doing too much dramaturgy.

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face, I pretend that they're not there. But I actually like being on my own, I like being in the space.