Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

It takes a long time for words to become thought.