The greatest advantage of all is that when people think you're a witch, you can eat an entire serving of squash all by yourself.

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Live a life worth remembering.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap

The living are just the dead on holiday

All cats are grey in the dark.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.