No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

Kids do say the darndest things

Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201)

And yet the night was still fresh: young as new dawn.There was still time for worlds to change, if that was to be their fate.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

Raise your energy. You attract what you radiate.

Maybe if I point to my brain it will work.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.