When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Golda Meir

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Aldous Huxley

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Johann von Goethe

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

John Steinbeck

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

Tori Amos

1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.

Kurt Vonnegut

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Walt Whitman

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

James M. Barrie

Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession.

Pope John XXIII

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Norman Mailer