People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

The world was hers for the reading.

There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.

If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone

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Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

Separate the story - your story - from facts.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.

When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.

Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.