It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.