It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

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.

Towards these weeks of rain I give effusive praise. Let me always be reminded that there is time for change.

The only spark of humanity in me is from you, because I love you. If you die, so do I.

You’re telling stories again. You have the disease of telling stories, Roland.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.