Every cat knows how to keep his owner feeding them: You may scratch and bite ninety-nine times, but the hundredth time, you must leap into a lap and press your nose to their nose. Rules are for dogs.

No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.

The Heart of Fairyland is a story, " she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.

And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.

Flowers are always more serious than they appear.

When insecurity starts to rub off on you, you begin to lose a sense of belonging.

Writing is the most powerful weapon on earth.It can change minds and stir souls.

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.