You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.