I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

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

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit — qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected.

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.