Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

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.

The moment you believe you will fail, you have already lost the battle.

Sometimes I think things happen for a reason... And I think if we're meant to run into each other again, fate will make it happen.

Men who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact.

Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

Amazing products, cats. And real simple to manufacture.