What do you mean by yuanfen?"She thought for a minute and replied, "It means: that apportionment of love which is destined for you in this world.

Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?

Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.

Memories shrink. Like a soap bar used over and over, they become deformed, weaker scented, too slight and slippery to hold.

You might measure your approach to a horse the same way as your approach to people because there are going to be some horses, like some people, who might be inclined to tune you out.

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

There's no "right way" to garden, only what suits each person and place.

The more successful you and your organization become, the more humble and devoted to your customers you need to be.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.