Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!

The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

you can never prove God; you can only find Him!