Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Friends who love us know that motherhood is about transitioning--and adjusting, constantly, to those changes. We must become masters of change because that is what life demands of us.

The tender breeze felt my loneliness. It brought me your fragrance.

Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.