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

There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

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 will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.