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

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.