Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

Fear is a snare that prevents us from moving forward, fear makes us an easy bait for the devil

Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past.

I crept in to find my father with pennies on his eyes - and looking closer I saw they were made of foil-covered chocolate. Of course I stole and ate them. Magical guilt? Tell me about it

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.

Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.