The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.
We've got to make sure that teachers are respected, that they are rewarded, that young people like yourself who have talent and want to work with people, that you're able to support yourself and live out a great life being a teacher.
Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?
When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.