Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus.

You knew those people could be temperamental.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.

I'm so hungry I could eat you! -Cloudpaw

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.