We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

If anything I urge you to live bravely and beyond your own comfort zone.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

I think Donald Trump's natural tendency in all things is to resist any "deal" where he doesn't get to set the terms.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.