Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.

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.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

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.

I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again - or with anyone else. In this sense 'marriage' seems to me indissoluble.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.