the human heart clings - even to its pain.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Only a few things are really important.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

The Christian life isn’t a playground but a battlefield.

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

I would rather clean than beg.

The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.

You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

Getting married was the best thing I've ever done.

When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.