Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

Liberation begins with liberation of mind, soul and body.

Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip. “We don’t have five minutes.

Our civil position should not depend on the tests and problems we go through

Work hard at everything you do. Never give up. Never quit. Many people have talents but without the hard work you won't get anywhere.

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.