I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

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.

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

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.

It's time to stop following the yellow brick road, use your God given brain, and quit chasing rainbows, because the truth is life's hard, but can be oh so sweet when you choose to own it.

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!