Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.