If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

I did not think of writing as a career and I don't think that I did this ever really, but I think of writing as something that I could do, I should do alongside whatever else I was doing. It simply grew on me.

Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.