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.

It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.

God uses lust to impel men to marry ambition to office avarice to earning and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

When fear seizes change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

I have learned that when you’re in the right you should fight the world.

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.