Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.

Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.

Oh death you can wait keep your distance.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.

You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.