If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.

California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?