A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.

The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.