What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.
Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.
A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.