Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

I love this place; I love mountains and big skies and forests. And the weather is still supremely beautiful even though the lower peaks are powdered with fresh snow. But Heavens! What sun. It never has an ending. I am basking at this minute - half past four - too hot without a hat, & the sky is that transparent blue only to be seen in autumn - the forest trees steeped in light.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?