war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.

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.

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

It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

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

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.