Weather creates character.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

To sleep is an act of faith.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.