No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.

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

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

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

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

People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that -- just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.