You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.