My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground - root a mountain down.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

Those who have little in the way of character do all they can to blend into crowds, as those with Integrity stand alone in Success

Both joy and gratitude go hand in hand together. More grateful you are more joyful you will be.

Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.

When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life

Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.

If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

I'm lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.

You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe.