That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

I listen mostly to classical music.

As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And 'perfect love casteth out all fear'.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

Stay beautiful, keep it ugly

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.

Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.

Be at ease, not dis-ease.