We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.

A best friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself

Well, pull up an ice block and lend an ear. Now you know how Santa uses these flying reindeer to pull his sleigh.

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.