What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.

You are always on the verge of an adventure so dare to find it with true joy.

You don't need to sit on a throne before you have the chance to dream

Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.

Sales fixes everything.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

I've always been a businesswoman.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.