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

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.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.

What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it -- only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.

No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.