Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Meow” means “woof” in cat.

I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity

True love doesn't expect anything but it does gives everything

Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.

When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

America doesn't have an abortion problem - it has an unwanted pregnancy problem, and an abortion symptom.

Loving what you do is the secret to everything.

I hated him. I hated them all. They made me hate myself even more than I already did.

We are making tremendous progress that ISIS really does present to the homeland and to other homelands of allies around the world.