One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.