In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

Borrowed illusions are better than none.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.