the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

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

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.