The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.