There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

Beauty is where the beheld butterfly disappears from sight.

Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

Whenever we wake up from a horrible nightmare, we don't immediately scream out of happiness.It takes a while to feel so safe and so good.

I do yoga and weights, mainly. I still box. I box once a week, but I don't get punched in the face anymore. I just hit the bags now. I'm done with that competitive side of it.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.