Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.

But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes a long way with me.

I tried the plan of talking incessantly myself, so as to hide the fact I didn't hear anything they said, the result was nobody paid the slightest attention to my (doubtless brilliant) remarks.

love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.

The world needs more love at first sight.

We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

Let us have no guiltLeft to wasteFor dreaming still.

Saying both sides participated in violence doesn't mean both sides are equally ideologically wrong, you know.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

I learned to value the small transactions as well as the large.

words can never get at the truth.

I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.