happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

Springtimeand I wish I knew you

Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.

I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.