Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.

As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it. [Ger., Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischt Du mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut.]

Much we learn only to forget it again, to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it

Grief was an ocean. We were sitting in the middle of it on makeshift life rafts, never knowing if we’d make it to shore.

You can't draw water from an empty well.

Life comes and goes. …If you know that, you know it all.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.

When the road seems to be endlessly long, increase your speed!

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.