To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered.

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here.

The development of attention in childhood is a foundation for self-regulation and academic achievement.