There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

Luck is good planning carefully executed.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'