The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.
... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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.
Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.