The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

Love is the light that you see by.

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

It takes a small town to keep you humble.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge.

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

I'm living the dream.

If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.

I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.