Sure, go ahead. Calvin fished in his pocket and pulled out a wad of folded paper. As a matter of fact, I have some junk of mine to finish up. Math. That’s one thing I have a hard time keeping up in. I...
So my hope, each day as I grow older, is that this will never be simply chronological aging . . . but that I will also grow into maturity, where the experience which can be acquired only through chron...
One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how wrong somebody is—how shallow it is to look at the Resurrection as a mere, explai...
Once Christianity became acceptable, and even mandatory, it lost the early poverty of spirit which sustained it when any group gathered together for bread and wine in his Name had to have one ear open...
Okay, Polly, her grandfather said. Let’s have some normal, ordinary lesson time. What is Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?
Nothing important is completely explicable.
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to th...
Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' mad! You won't even let me mad at you,' and then they laugh. Aren't you sorry for people who don't laugh, V...
Majah, minah, and mediocah.
Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by.
Like everything else—Meg spoke to the few remaining cauliflower heads— it’s falling apart. It’s not right in the United States of America that a little kid shouldn’t be safe in school.
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point.
La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia.
It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything abo...
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning...
It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.
In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but never in reality.
In a moment of crisis we don't act out of reasoned judgment but on our conditioned reflexes. We may be able to send men to the moon, but we'd better remember we're still closely related to Pavlov's do...
If we knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we'd tend not to notice the sunrise,or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into shore. We'd tend not to treas...
If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we'd be -- we'd be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives of our own, with everything all planned and done for us.