One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.

It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.

The strongest people in the world are the ones who think they're weak.

It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.

By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.

When two people love each other, they do not comply and does not dominate, only complement each other.

But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.