Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

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.

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error

What we frankly give forever is our own.

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

Let today be the day you give up who you've been for who you can become.

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion !