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

The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

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 and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.