by and large, mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are the great vacationless class

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.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book.

Death is the last limit of all things.

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

The little Road says, Go; The little House says, Stay; And oh, it's bonny here at home, But I must go away.

My mom has always said that you don't know what love is until you've had a child.

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.