The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.