They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.

Remember: worry, fear, and negative thoughts produce a yield from those thoughts that have to be inevitably reaped after they have been sown!

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV.'

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.