CAUTION: What we see may not always be what we thought.

Compassion nourishes the wilted heart.

Everything starts from inside of us, then comes outside of us.

To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)!

I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.

It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.