"We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake."

“Hear the meaning within the word....”

“I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.”

“The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.”

“No matter what era we're in, we need hope.”

“Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.”

“I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.”

Source : Grace Paley, Gerhard Bach, Blaine H. Hall (1997). “Conversations with Grace Paley”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch.Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.”