Anna Quindlen

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

A finished person is a boring person.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.