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.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.