Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.

The world is not to be run by miracles but by principles.

Warrior of the night must be awake to write the sacred words.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.

Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it!

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

I never thought I'd have a daughter.