That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life but in a new way.

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.

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

Don't talk. I can't hear myself see.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

God shall be all in all.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.