What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other. --Edmund Burke

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. --Aldous Huxley

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. --Elihu Burritt

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. --Oscar Levant

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. --Mahatma Gandhi

Cool sites for booklovers to check out:

• Loganberry Books Check out the Book Club and "Stump the Bookseller" (under "Nostalgia")
• Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University
• The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
• The Five Owls