The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do 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.

Evil is of the devil.

Wisdom paints a rainbow in your mind, joy paints a rainbow in your heart, and love paints a rainbow in your soul.

If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life.

Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.

Well, that's an evil smile.

Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.