Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe.