It takes a lot of doing to die.

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.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

Fairness isn’t getting what everyone else gets. Fairness is getting what you need.

You Only Live Once (YOLO)

There are perfectly good independent small nations.

I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliché to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.

Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Israel’s days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.