I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

The ultimate aim of learning knowledge is to gain wisdom.

I'd like to run away from you, but if you didn't come and find me.... I would die.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

The Brother's eyes narrowed. "But here's something to keep in mind. You ever hurt him on purpose and I will consider you my enemy.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.