Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.
The world was hers for the reading.
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.
When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.
Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
I don't want to age myself.