Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

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

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.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.