We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling… But a world without feeling is a world without pain.

All the higher values in life get redefined on a regular basis for good

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect.

There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

Don't push growth; remove the factors limiting growth.

Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.