For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

suffer. you could say it means endure, but thats not exactly right

Lying rides upon debt's back.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

Christ, I'm in a Doris Day movie

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.