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

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.