Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is

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.

Each day makes the difference !

Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]

Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.

It is actually helpful to acknowledge the truth that we are just as quirky as everyone else and that God loves quirky!