No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ..

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone..

People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers..

Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?.

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality..

It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day..

So many things we love are you!.

When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to preten….

I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as wel….

For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is tr….

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes….

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of ….

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own..

Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?.

I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can….

people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!.

Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night ….

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me..

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves..

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly..

I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware….