Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

All art is but imitation of nature.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It’s so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you’re also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it’s just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I love the sea.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Water’s never clumsy.

Gardening is not a rational act.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.