We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.