... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

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.

Of course I want the moon. And were you to offer it, I'd propose as a trade the stars in my eyes.

Annihilate the enemy with acts of kindness only you can afford.

River water and talent can’t be stopped forever.

There is no off position on the genius button.

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.

And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.