But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.

But what doesn’t die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.

It is hard to give up what you know for what you don’t know.

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.