If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.

The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses---people who were total self-creations.

I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions not the year's.

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.