“The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.”

“What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered fact."Whywhy," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr...”

“This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school....”

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”

“Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.”

“If we would only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation we would be startled at our...”

“But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. ”

“The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.”

“Many people achieved important goals in their lives, but hardly any of them seemed any happier for it. Even worse, some complained that other areas of their lives had suffered along the way. The re...”