It takes a small town to keep you humble.

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

Love is the light that you see by.

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.

Your life "behind the scenes" must correspond to your life "on stage." What you preach must correspond to how you live

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

How I do love to hear the wolves howl!

If you don't ask, you don't get it

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.