Don't let your life be steered by your reluctance to do a little extra thinking.

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.

Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

Maybe something new is even being done by people who see our generation as an enemy. That can create energy as well.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.

I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came. Who knows how many petals had fallen?

Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

Love is not a thing to understand. Love is not a thing to feel. Love is not a thing to give and receive. Love is a thing only to become and eternally Be.