My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"..."It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...

Thoughts -- just mere thoughts -- are as powerful as electric batteries -- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.

They're a pair of young Satans.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us - like electricity and horses and steam.

You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics.

Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place; which Asian are you talking about? You notice it's never Uzbek or Tajik food. It's Thai, and it's generally insulting.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

Big name often stands on small legs.

It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.

Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would never want them to get blended together.

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.