Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or...

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies...

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by...

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a...

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.