To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid.

Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.

Seeing yourself with the eyes of love makes it natural to see the Divine Spirit in everyone you meet.

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that?

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.