We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

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.

You should know this about the rich: they always want to get richer. It is never boring, getting your hands on more money.

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

Memory fill the night. Please help make my pain and memories light. In your arms I find comfort. Guide me in my days. Help me Lord, this night

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.

Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

Never use the words 'suddenly' or 'all hell broke loose.'

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.