Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

There is no ‘my’ in ‘I’. ‘My’ is outside of the ‘I’.

If you are not able to find peace within yourself, no one will be able to bring you peace.

In passion we trust, for passion finds infinity and says that is how many ways I can exist.

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

Only acknowledge your limitations for the purpose of overcoming them.