I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

The world was hers for the reading.

There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

Never stretch your neck to see who is not doing it big. Look into your bosom, and realize that you can do it bigger! Go, create a brighter picture!

It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.

Pain is like love

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.

The disease of debt has reached the top. And once it reaches the top it has no-where else to go.

Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That s what people do, kill the things they re afraid of.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.