I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

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

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.