What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.

If you give into hate, you'll destroy yourself. Hate doesn't help anything.

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life.

Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.

Happiness is what you choose to remember.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.

The real is empty and the empty real

Sandy: Boy, you must really think I'm stupid or something. Jeff: Ahh, no one would call you stupid, to your face.