To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

It's like she has her heart in her hand and it's broken. She's holding it out and showing me all the little pieces. Or maybe it's my heart.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will.

I'm leaving on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

Most economics that is taught in college and universities today projects itself as a value-neutral science. This claim has always been open to question, but I think it's especially in doubt today.