It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.
Anne Morrow LindberghThe best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.
Anne Morrow LindberghI must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
Anne Morrow LindberghGrief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh