If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

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.

What is yours is yours

Conscience is the absolute truthfulness perceived, which comes from Nothing, our true nature, and as such reflects things exactly the way they are.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

We should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do.

I did my time in the jail of your arms

I had the honor and privilege of working with John Ritter.