The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'