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

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

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

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.