I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day, if I ever get a chance, I shall write a book, or warning, on the character and temperament of the Dachshund and why he can't be trained and shouldn't be. I would rather train a striped zebra to balance an Indian club than induce a Dachshund to heed my slightest command. When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes. He even disobeys me when I instruct him in something he wants to do.
Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
Use the smallest word that does the job.
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
You're terrific as far as I am concerned.
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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