Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

If our petitions are in accordance with His will and if we seek His glory in the asking the answers will come in ways that will astonish us and fill our hearts with songs of thanksgiving.

I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.