A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

...it's amazing what passing the half-century mark does to free one to be eccentric.

Oh, my darling you are not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. Love is people, is a person. A friend of ours, Hugh Bishop of Mirfield, says in one of his books: "Love is not an emotion. It is a policy." Those words have often helped me when all my feelings were unlovely.

How do we teach a child--our own, or those in a classroom--to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have--or need--answers.