It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

A heart's a heavy burden.

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Serve God and get grace to serve people

We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

Ted Cruz is tailored his message for a specific conservative evangelical. I think it's limited his appeal. I think he has the ability to appeal to everybody.

The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.