The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

LOVE, is the most powerful thing that makes my world turn upside down.

One who protects himself from negative thoughts protects himself from negative outcomes.

Your mind is definitely not meant to entertain and shelter any thought that goes against your positive desires. You should always be on guard against all self-defeating thoughts and words.

The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

The crowd think that Todd handled the ball...they must have seen something that nobody else did.

Hillary Clinton's campaign slogan is, "I'm with her." You know what my response is to that? "I'm with you, the American people."

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.