Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

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.

Where there is ‘egoism’, there is no God. Where there is God, there is no ‘egoism’.

Contentment is the greatest joy.

I am part of you and you are part of me. We are one even though we have separate bodies.

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

Politics does not end the day of the election.

The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.

You broke my heart, Trish Stratus, now I'm gonna break you!

But we're alive, and together, and we're going to be all right.