It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

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

Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

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