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.

We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.

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.

Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.