Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

as a childthere was eitherbooksorpain.i chose books.-how i became a writer

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.

Become intensely conscious of the present moment.

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

I love looking after animals. I find it very enjoyable.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.