Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.
We’ll walk from here to the
I made myself a glass of chocolate milk using enough syrup for three normal glasses. I also made myself four peanut butter crackers. Then I walked out the living room door to our terrace. The trees we...
I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane
Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.
… The men left, turning
Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.
I've been the oldest child since before you were born
Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.
By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.
They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.
Let me first talk about our brains as a personal radio telescope. Let me talk first about its wonderful built-in wiring for tuning out the static of our civilization in order to better tune in its sym...
I keep telling you that often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
Going to school- picking an appleGetting an education- eating it
Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate fact...
I prefer not to.
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were...
But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction...
Becoming a team didn’t mean the end of their arguments. But it did mean that the arguments became a part of the adventure, became discussions not threats. To an outsider the arguments would appear to...