My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.