“Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?”

“We do not choose what happens to us. We can only choose what we do after. What we do now. We can only choose to keep going.”

“According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with a small key to the world of the young. It's a place where good and evil are clearly stamped. It's a place where the better part of human nature triumphs over tragedies, and where innocence rides high. It is a great pleasure to write there, because the young have what the rest of us only envy, and that is a belief in goodness and perpetual hope. ”

“The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”

“Listen, Sebastian," he whispered. "That beautiful sound belongs to us for the rest for our lives. That's your mother. She's sunshine. No matter what happens in our lives, we have that.”

“Easy and difficult things are juat small parts of life, the rest are what have to be done.”