Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains.….

Oh time...time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget..

I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable..

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her fri….

No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it….

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that sh….

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory..

We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it..

New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world..

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted..

A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you….

I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it….

Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williams….

People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind..

Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books..

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me..

In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell ….

Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived!….

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up..

Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he….