Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Being rejected is not the end of your life, it's a means to an end for your life. And that end is your destiny.

If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?

Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

The bell tolling not for us, it’s time for bluebells.

Running a small country and managing a game is almost synonymous.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.