It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

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.

No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.