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

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

One must lose one's life to find it.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.