God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

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.

Be yourself! Don’t try to fabricate your personality in the guise of impressing others.

Sweep the broomOver sand and stone.Softly, gently, Brush away the dust.Listen to the leavesAs they sing in the tree.Peace fills the soulWhen living well.

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

I MAY NOT BE MUCH ELSE IN THIS WORLD BUT I GUARANTEE YOU I AM GETTING INTO RAPPER HEAVEN.

If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.

My morals went when the president got oral.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

I don't talk about my personal life with the press.

We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.