[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

Useless as a pulled tooth.