The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

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 Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.

I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Don't buy the toys that make the noise!

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.

There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

The great ones don't come cheap.

I think in the world of politics run by the left, men have been chickified.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.