"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."

"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven."

"If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents."

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."

"There is no one subsists by himself alone."

"Being alone is very difficult."

"A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy."