Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

In the world we live, either everyone is stupid or no one is.

It comes back all at once: a woman on a beach, a tree, a wind that calms, a rain that cleanses, but does not wet.

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

If you're famous, you're not free.

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Every bride and groom would do well to remember that in wedding, the we comes before the I.

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless.

I'm more interested in life than life-style.