Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Trouble like the hill ahead straightens out when you advance upon it.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Happiness is not something you get but something you do.

A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.

It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

The solution is to trust yourself, to trust each other and to trust your connection with the Source of all Love and Light. To trust God.

There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.

Creativity is an integral part of our personality.

I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.