To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will it result in regret or joy in the future?

Just so you know, I'm strictly a taco girl. I have tried sausage, but it's not for me." ~ Jolie

We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

When I'm in the studio, I become a total nerd.