librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

Everyone who loves risks losing their heart every minute of every day.

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.

Time may change me, but I can't trace time.

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

She was a girl and she was a queen and back in the mists she was a woman who had seized the moon from the sky and drunk its light so that she would never die. And she never had.

I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

It is always to early to quit.

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.