Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

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.

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

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

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.