Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.

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.

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

I would rather have 10, 000 stories than 10, 000 in my bank account @myhumancompass Roy ('Backpack') Baron author of Looking Glass Shattered.

I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.

Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.

The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.

If America puts the enmity aside, if it initiates good will, and if it compensates for the past, the future situation between the United States and Iran will change.

Houston people are way cool. They're smart, they know how to have a good time, and they have the hottest chicks on the planet there.

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.