The poetry made her uncomfortable. It was too much like reading spells.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
You are rich if your heart is filled with an abundance of love.
The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them grown up. The creative adult is the child who survived the blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of b...
Living life without a goal is like sailing the sea without a compass.
Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.