Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.
Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods. . . and real ethics reform at City Hall.
Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?
Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.
Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away.
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.
Take less time to read the scorecard and more time to read the hole.
There was a place in New York called Tannen's Magic. It still exists. But back in the day, it was really fantastic. You'd go into the old Wurlitzer Building, take the elevator to the 13th floor, which was labeled 14, because of bad luck, the elevator would open, and you'd be in heaven. It was all of these guys doing magic stuff with props. It's kind of gone now, that experience, the brick-and-mortar magic shop, but you really felt like you'd landed in the most amazing place in the world.
The true India resides in its villages