Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Pain in the body is a clear indication, Something in the energy fields are blocking inner growth.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

Why not be a man and fight like a man.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.