"I think, at a child's birth, if..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

“All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.”

“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”

“The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.”

“It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.”

“It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.”

“My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.”

“My father and mother separated when I was two months old.”