'What I like doing best is nothing. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.'

'A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.'

'If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.'

'They wanted to come in after the pounds', explained Pooh, 'so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.'

I thank God for this ten weeks' quiet before the end... Life has always been hurried and full of difficulty... This time of rest has been a great mercy.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

O'er all the hilltops Is quiet now, In all the treetops Hearest thou Hardly a breath; The birds are asleep in the trees: Wait; soon like these Thou too shalt r…