If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.

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