Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.

When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.