To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

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.