a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

when the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all.

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.