"Anticipating their calamity and fright when deportation day came (August 6, 1942) he [Henryk Goldszmit, pen name: Janusz Korczak] joined them aboard t...












Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
More Diane Ackerman quotes
"How can love's spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable?
"Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of pure emotion. Hate stalks the streets with dripping fangs, fear flies dow...
"Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate—love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping f...
"When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a ra...
"The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may...
"Much more. We're joined at the heart.""Bad luck for you, I'm afraid. My ticker's pretty wonky.""Too much boozing."His eyes twinkled, and he drew me cl...