I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

What a blessing it is to love books.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

Never give up on your dreams, without them life is just an existence.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.

Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.

Let me remind you that this is God's universe, and He is doing things His way. You may think you have a better way, but you don't have a universe to rule.

When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.

Now more than ever the world needs love, not just a slogan.

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

I'm a sucker for a man who cries. It just gets to me.