"Step with care and great tact And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left."

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."

"Will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! (98 and 34 percent guaranteed.)"

"I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long."

"And there's this burning like there's always been, I've never been so alone and I've never been so alive."

"All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer."

"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat."

"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?"

"Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."