I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Hope is faith of a glad heart.

All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

Most people know who believes in them.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I'm lying.

Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.