“It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.”

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.

The hardest part is what to leave behind, It’s time to let go!

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

Think it over, think it under.

The truth is that Fate does not go out of its way to be dramatic.

Friendship is a very comforting thing to have.

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think.

If I write a book where all I’ve ever experienced is success, people won’t take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.

I’ve read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don’t even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I’d imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I thought I’d begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.