At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.

It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives

I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.

Your future is found in your daily routine. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally!

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.