Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the promise. My favorite four letter word is once because it says it happened then. My favorite three letter word is yes because I’m just now learning to say it to my heart. My favorite two letter word is if because it makes all things possible like this: If not always If not never Then once. Yes.