Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing..

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood..

These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were ….

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded..

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which ….

Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to t….

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day..

It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a super….

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be a….

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side..

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic..

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found..

God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer..

I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again - or with an….

We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or ….

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life..

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to..

Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remembe….

People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy ….

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere..

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand..