O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.

A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.

A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.

Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.

Until I truly loved, I was alone.

For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.

Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

Between the world we seeand the things we fear, there are doors. When they are opened, nightmares become reality.

When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn.

All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.