If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Never entertain anger. Great people do not become angry over unnecessary issues.

An empty street sucks your fullness

Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture

If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

A lot of people believe you only need a vision. This is simply not correct. You need brilliant execution every day. It's about attention to all the details of go to market.

It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage

I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.