Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

Yoga changed my life. Have fun and work hard because it will totally pay off.

Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.

I recommend sports, I don't recommend gambling.

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.