now, never mindthe boy who came out of that reading rooma new man, safe in the hope of what was to comein the summers of his life.

Be a problem solver

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.

Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.