Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Love dies only when growth stops.