I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

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

The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.