In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.

a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

Gammy used to say "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things."

Solitude helps you to see life the way it is.

Seek not outside yourself for love, because what you are looking for is what you really are.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

You must create more margin so you have room for what’s important, not merely urgent.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."

Your physical, mental and intellectual resources - continually growing and changing - are your personal capital.

Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.

When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.