The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.

When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.