For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

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.

We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil.

Forever's just a word.

Show the world there's something to fight for. Your life is the proof that beauty can still be attained.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

I should have done target practice.

There's many a man hath more hair than wit.