It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

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.

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".

You can’t love anything properly from a distance.

Truth is relative!

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

I meant to behave. There were just too many other options.--T-SHIRT

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.