Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

The page is to the story as the seed is to the flower.

As a collaborative leader, you support people in their work—you remove roadblocks and help them win.

You don't have to make any decisions right now, " Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage."~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other and both together make up one whole.

O Life! thou art a galling load Along a rough a weary road to wretches such as I.

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.

You just can't let the outside world affect your game.You can't hold anything back. You can't play a different game.

For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.