Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.

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.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.

Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her.

The tree does not die, it waits.

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon divine, Rolls through the dark blue depths.

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?