“How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds!”

“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and were both unhappy, and we both suffer.”

“Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? 'Make way, we are coming! Give us every right and don't you dare breathe a word before us. Pay us every sort of respect, such as no one's ev...”

“We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.”

“Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?”

“Children can be told anythinganything. I've always been struck by seeing how little grown-up people understand children, how little parents even understand their own children. Nothing should be con...”

“Keep a spur handy.”

“Children can be told anything—anything. I've always been struck by seeing how little grown-up people understand children, how little parents even understand their own children. Nothing should be co...”

“As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of us try to find support by leaning on all sorts of things - gold, books, learning, sensory stimulat...”

“We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give us. Our hearts must soar in the heavens for us to be truly the humans we were...”

“Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human fe...”