Good evening, children, ' Said Nurse Matilda, and she gave a loud thump on the floor with her big black stick. 'I am Nurse Matilda.

The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown's family. 'The person you want, ' they said, 'is Nurse Matilda.

Mocking precedes learning the hard way.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is kindness.

Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don't respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals.

The pain of being in the stress and anxiety of control and fear must reach a point where you don’t want to feel it anymore and then you are ready to truly surrender and let go.

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.

Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.

Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

Ninety percent of my thoughts are, "How will this work on the radio?"

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.