“Instead of opportunities for serious accomplishment in our culture, we supply our children with expensive toys, hoping that these will occupy them and keep them from disturbing us.”

“In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.”

“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.”

“If we keep our eyes open and our hearts clear, we can realize that life gives us adequate opportunities to experience both love and hope”

“We will not find security for ourselves if we are estranged from the other people of this world and alienated from them and their cultures. We will not find peace for ourselves and our children by continuing to ignore other people and by arrogantly insisting that the rest of the world must learn from us what we are willing to teach and must speak to us only in our tongue.”

“When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God.”