You look for one thing and you find another.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

I like musicals that look more like plays.

If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender.

Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it

Each year, millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.