Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.

Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Let the seeds of hope sprout in the dead of winter.

The greatest legacy a father can leave for his children before he departs is PEACE, otherwise his properties will go in PIECES sooner that he dies.

The journey itself IS the reward. NOT the destination or future event.

If matters go badly now they will not always be so.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.

Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics

Dimitri: "Why did you come here?" Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here.