Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.