Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations

I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.

But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.