No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.

Adventure, without it, why live?

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.

Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.

There are so many things that we learn in our lives most of which we can't learn without seeing the hearts of others.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

The sky didn't wonder where it was.

Midnight blue is the only color that can ever compete with black.

The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.

If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree