We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Kindnessis never weaknessif it has potentialto cause death.So, if you can“kill them with kindness, ”the ball is in your court.YOU have the power!

You are the one who must choose your place.

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.

I've decided to keep working until my last kid is thu college.

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.