If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

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.

Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.

A beautiful sidenote is, once the toxins and dramas are removed, you purify your life. Simplify and purify. What better way to live your life? Simple and pure!

Being fired is part of the risk when anyone plans to take on the responsibility as a head coach.

I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America's taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity...

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.