Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.

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

Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.

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

Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is

There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, 'Who am I? What is my name? Why am I here?

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.