"There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent."

“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

Source : "Taking Charge : Every Woman's Action Guide to Personal, Political and Professional Success". Book by Joan Steinau Lester )p. 76), 1996.

“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”

“Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.”

“I am in England and the food here is not to be tasted as much as just swallowed without grimacing.”

“Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.”

“We just hide from the people we love. Sad, isn't it?”

“I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.”

“Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.”

Source : 1989 Tales of Tenderness and Power.