It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.