It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Rich people are just like us though they now eat their meals off square shaped plates.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

Seriously, who has monogrammed pajamas?

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

Listen to your fear but don't obey it.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.