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

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.

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.

I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

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

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.