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

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.

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.

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

The more mindless the task, the higher probability of subconscious disruption can stimulate creativity.

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

When I grow up, I want to be an actress. But I want to be a legend of something.

Football is nothing without fans.

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

Do you ever do something, and then think to yourself: That's So Raven?