Margaret Lee Runbeck Quotations

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Of all the dear sights in the world, nothing is so beautiful as children when they are giving something. Any small thing they give. Children give the world to you. They open the world to you as if it were a book you'd never been able to read. But when a gift must be found, it is always some absurd little thing, passed on crooked. . . an angel looking like a clown. Children have so little that they can give, because they never know they have given you everything.

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.