Frustration is the mother of risk.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Walking on the path I met my Master, known by a million names in different cultures and places yet people have forgotten the way to HIM.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

She had a lot of hugs to give, but not enough people to give them to.

The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.

The key to getting work done on time is to stop wearing a watch.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.