And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Silence is a great peacemaker.

I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.

All bad memories erased! Now you can make new ones-good memories.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.