The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.
A wild appreciation of men and women. . . who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance. . . . The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.
I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely. . . It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.
Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.
I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.
Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it. "
All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.
My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.
Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies!