How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

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.

Pay great attention to those who love you, and love those who hate you.

Be safe, she whispered. Then she closed her eyes and said in a low, broken monotone, "I love you.KailaniSiobhan Fallon

And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

True love is so hard to find, and they say that once you found it you lost your mind.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man.