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

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

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.

Be kind to be awesome.

If i believe my truth is true and you believe your truth is true, what if my truth says yours is a lie.is it still true?

Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

These are stupid people that say, ‘Oh didn’t Trump declare bankruptcy? Didn’t he go bankrupt?’ I didn’t go bankrupt.

[Pope Francis] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate.

I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine.

That made me happy. That was my Anchor.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.