the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

When days seem like years and years feel like days.

Rather than critique people, try admiring God’s creative handiwork.

They're the first crew I've ever had and most of them even call me Captain. I'm going to miss them.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

You never know what a movie is going to look like when you're shooting it and you just hope it's going to look like it's supposed to be.