To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.