I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.

the human body is a miniature version of the universe - the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.

Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case.