It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

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.

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit

I’m tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

So far China has won the most gold medals, ladies and gentlemen. The Chinese athletes can't wait to get home and show the medals off to the kids who made them.

If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?

Appreciate the moment.

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.