Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.

But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.