With opportunity the world is very interesting.

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.

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

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.

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.

If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.

There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.

I'm extremely proud of my daughter. She's done amazing work. She's worked on herself, which I think is important.

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

I donated blood today. That's what I call getting an AIDS test.

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.