“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”

“Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past t...”

“After a full belly all is poetry.”

“Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.”

“Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.”

“We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.”

“His story is simple, because simple is always best.”

“Why Worry?If its better when simpler.”

“Sounds simple, doesnt it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But its not as simple as it seems.”

“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending t...”

“Have tea, might write, Laura returned.”

“Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!”

“If your thinking is based on His word and not on what the world is saying then you will be victorious”

“There's no point in saying anything but the truth.”

“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.”