Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

The world is always ending for someone.

"The best children's books are the ones that don't talk down to children."