You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.

Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep it on the move if you want it to keep smiling.