Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Such to me is the new image of aging growth in self and service for all mankind.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

I love you like a guitar loves hands. The strings of my heart will never sing without your touch.

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

Excellence must be achieved through the eyes of those who judge us

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

When I asked my mother, ‘how do I tell people about you’ her answer was ‘tell the truth’. But of course, the truth is never simple.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

I think if a woman is very happy with herself and at ease with her choices, it goes a long way toward making other people feel at ease with her.