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.

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.

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

Aires and Echo Emerson. Their mother must have hated them to give them names like that.

Don't worry about what you can't do; focus instead on what you can do... and then do it.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.

We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.