When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

We destroy ourselves when we are ignorant or decide to live in ignorance.

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

You're seventeen now. You can do...absolutely nothing you couldn't already

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.

No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.

As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

God created the world and then created the devil, to blame for his mistakes.

What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.