Find the beautiful things, little brother. Every time you mourn for me, I'll be far away. But when you celebrate, I'll be right there with you, dancing.

That's what I'd say in my essay about To Kill a Mockingbird, I decided. I'd make sure the English teacher knew that the story of Jem and Scout and Atticus Finch wasn't just words someone made up in a book. There were people who lived it—people of all different

It's funny how when you think you've got problems, you usually don't have to look far to find someone who's in a lot worse shape.

Hardship finds its way into every life. It's just much easier to see our own than other people's.

Every time you mourn for me, I'll be far away. But when you celebrate, I'll be right there with you, dancing.

She looked around the room then, and her eyes got misty, and she said we kids oughta remember there was a time when some folks had it a lot harder than others. I couldn't see how things were so different now.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.

In the midst of life we are near death, that is a phrase which touches each one of us personally, it is a truth we see again confirmed in what you tell me about Carolien van Stockum, and formerly we saw it in another member of the same family. It has touched me, and with all my heart I hope she may recover. Oh! what sorrow, what sadness and suffering there is in the world, in public as well as in private life.

the fear of madness passes from me considerably upon seeing from close at hand those who are affected with it, as I may very easily be in the future.