"There were lots of little boys having..." - Quote by Oprah Winfrey

“Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.”

“What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.”

“For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.”

“Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.”

“Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.”

“The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.”

“How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.”

“Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions are old? All things appeared to contend there, as I have implied, with a certain rust of antiquity, such as forms on old armor and iron guns,--the rust of conventions and formalities. It is said that the metallic roofs of Montreal and Quebec keep sound and bright for forty years in some cases. But if the rust was not on the tinned roofs and spires, it was on the inhabitants and their institutions.”

“The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.”