What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?

People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.