The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.

We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.