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

We must relearn to be alone.

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

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.

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.

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