Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life, but always be open to serendipity.

Perspective is a kind of mental sunblock that, provided we apply it properly, prevents us from getting burned by past mistakes.

Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller.

A library is a fueling station for your mind.

I'd rather be on the ground than underTo feel the heavy rain and the thunder.

I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.

I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.

A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

I don't think there's any way you can worry about how many errors or how many bad plays you've made. You can get into a fielding funk just as quick as you can hitting.

Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.