Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm.

From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.