Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness.

It wasn't just order and discipline. We dominated which is not easy against the Dutch.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.