When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

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.

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.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground.