The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.

Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Manuscript rejections might tempt you to quit writing or querying. Don't.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.

The more others encounter us honoring the boundaries we have set for our lives, the more they will know that they can trust us with their lives.

U.N. weapons inspectors found empty chemical warheads in Iraq. So, the question everyone is asking now is how did Sean Penn miss this?

Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.

So different groups have different definitions, and then they clash on those. So it takes adept leadership to say we're going to work through these.

A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.

And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?