She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win.p. 246
Not being happy really is my fear.
A stranger may find beauty in you yet.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
when parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...