Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.

Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

Be committed to whatever you're doing. That's something I've taken to heart and tried to do with whatever activities I take up.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.