The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters.

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

Happiness is attractive. Once you decide to be happy, you attract great things into your life.

I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.