Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found.

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.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

The ability to dream, be brave, and love, is never guaranteed, but must always be assumed.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.

Never give yourself permission to avoid doing what is right.

"Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is."

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do?

A real yogin...does not see the difference between a lump of dirt and a lump of gold

It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.