[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

What is greater than painIs a greater brainMore powerful than anything.

Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

The question you're not supposed to ask is the important one.

The work is demanding, the impact everlasting. This is no time for 'summer soldiers' in the army of the Lord.

If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already.