Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

We all want to look good, but genuine goodness is in the heart.

The world is so closed off to the inner beings of ourselves, I refuse to ever lower my energies to that.

I get skinnier if I'm very busy.

The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him'.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.