The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.

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.

Your eyes are an Ocean!

Love as river loves the ocean.Love as air loves the leaves.

For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new.

There are two kind of people in the world those who wish to be remembered, and those who are always remembered.

Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.

A conscious lifetime... is a treasure beyond value.

For some to love you, some must loathe you.

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.