Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.

One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

For after all we make our faces as we go along.

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed