However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

As I grabbed my cocoa, chocolate ran down my hand."This makes me feel like a five-year-old, " I said, licking it off."If I ordered a sandwich at this place, do you think they'd cut the crusts off?

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not.

Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.

I've got one of the best health care teams out there as far as diabetes management.

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.

What we need to do with respect to the Middle East is strong, steady leadership, not wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map.