The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.

I came looking for life and I found you

Repose not trust in testing another's degree of honesty at the risk of one's loss in matters big, unless collateralized.

And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

Work until your idols become your rivals

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

I want nothing from You but to see You.

When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve.

Opportunities don't knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen.