All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.