41 Quotes by Bel Kaufman

Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion...

When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.

The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?

But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader’s awareness of the human condition, in the writer’s touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady’s slip, should be there but it must not show.

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.