"Can I get you anything else?" David asked. It was a question he asked a hundred times a day and he always received the same answer. It had become such an ingrained part of his daily routine that he had to step back and actively think when he heard the little girl's reply. Nobody had before answered the question the way that she did, and David didn't know how he should respond.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Lucifer was surprised at the amount of life at Death Valley.

We have never been to Asia, nor have we visited Africa.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.