It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.

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.

God will only reveal Himself to you when you begin to regard His people

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

You got barn cats and you want to make them tamed, you need to get them as kittens.

The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.