“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”

“So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me."Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie.""I see," she said. "Well, I'd think that would get boring, everyone having the samename."I thought about thi...”

“I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.”

“Sub-consciousness is extremely selfish, it will do anything to keep you safe and main in a comfort zone”

“Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?”

“He enjoys much who is thankful for little.”

“Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?”

“Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.”