I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.