After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

How can you read this? There’s no pictures!” “Well, some people use their imagination.” – Gaston & Belle

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

Live, laugh, and love!! Blessings!!