It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

reading is like life, it can take u on one WILD ride

Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering

Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere. Joy is an inside job.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

I am the creator of my reality

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us.

You can't rely on your face or body to convey emotion.

Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.