Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.