Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget. [...] So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.