It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.

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.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications.

I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.

You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.

They [Muslims] are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so, then racist I must be - and happy and proud, to be so.

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.