The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

Gammy used to say "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things."

I had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing him as Gerald.

Do not carry the burden of self-judgment. You are forgiven and pardoned

The ordinary build houses when they have bricks

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness