Mary Ellen Chase

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.