Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.

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.

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There are times when you are home to yourself and you long for company.

Days feels like years when you're alone.

How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.

Be pretty if you can be witty if you must be agreeable if it kills you.

Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.