“I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.”

“I will never get over being thankful to them; I hope that you never get over being thankful to them. I hope that we will always remember them....Let us read again and again, and read to our children or our children's children, the accounts of those who suffered so much.”

“Sometimes in our attempt to give children what we did not have, we forget to give our children what we did have.”

“I want to believe that things sometimes matter. I want to believe that what we had when we were children we can still have when we grow older. That there are some things in life that are worth holding on to.”

“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”

“If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.”