Words worth keeping

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seenOf meadow flowers and butterfliesIn summers that have beenOf yellow leaves and gossamerIn autumns that there wereWith morning mist and silver sunAnd wind upon my hairI sit beside the fire and thinkOf how the world will beWhen winter comes without a spring That I shall ever seeFor still there are so many thingsThat I have never seenIn every wood in every springThere is a different greenI sit beside the fire and thinkOf people long agoAnd people that will see a worldThat I shall never knowBut all the while I sit and thinkOf times there were beforeI listen for returning feet And voices at the door

Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching� than to say “My heart is broken.