She was surprised at how tiny it seemed now. She supposed the school was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things.

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.

Intimacy should not be given casually

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.

Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

I wasn't the leader of any gang. I was for Billy all the time.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are.

I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.

All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.