... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.

He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

Courage, enthusiasm, awareness -- if only one can keep these to the end.

Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.

all my wealth is in my memories.

the trouble with success is - it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!

... as long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.

If you show life that isn’t yours you are wasting your time without knowing it. Let people see for themselves.

At the end of the day all we ever need is something that helped pass the time and something that keeps time from passing.

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel.

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

When my daughter was born she had jaundice, she was small, round and yellow. we called her Melony.

Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.