...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

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.

What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love. (48-49)

There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.

It's really important that as women we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.

When Jason Koumas is on form, he's the type of player who calls all the strings

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.