| Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. |
| There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth. |
| I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh. |
| Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. |
| I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. |
| Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. |
| Courage:the most important of all the virtues because without courage,you can't practice any other virtue consistently. |
| Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. |
| Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. |
| I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. |