A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

I often feel like a dinosaur. I don't get the technology thing at all. I was on the Internet not long ago for Barnes and Noble, and people were ringing up from all over the world - Australia, Canada, France. I experienced it as an informal chat, which was pleasant, but I couldn't quite take it in. It had a strong element of unreality. I can't be bothered to switch to a computer at my age, though I might get along with e-mail, which sounds appealing.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.