Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.