When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

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

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit — qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected.

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.