By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes.

When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

I like to sing when I have works to do - it does so help.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

A champion is someone ho gets up, een when he can't

Grief demands answers but one doesn't always get them.

While reason steers a man, it is faith alone that moves him

Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples. Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.