When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.

Feminism is not inherently bourgeois, but bourgeois feminism is the only one given voice in our society. That is why women’s issues discuss glass ceilings rather than dirt floors.

How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing could happen to others, but not to them. That is the way!

The world is not a rational place.

Be your best you, and when things get tough always know that you can hand it all over to the universe and it will support you.

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.