If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

God predetermines the pathways.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

I always like to say that our brand or our philosophy has always been kind of this marriage between the 'food as indulgence, ' and it's also been about 'food as health, ' that food is vitality.

I've always been a huge proponent for education I graduated high school at 14 years old and graduated college at 17 years old.

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

I get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I'm just trying to keep it as regular as possible because I like it that way

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.