For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts.

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter

US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.

Spending on oneself does not boost wellbeing. However, spending money on others does -- and it appears to be as important to people's happiness as the total amount of money they make.

I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.