In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.
I must try to be alone for part of each year. . . and part of each day. . . in order to keep my core, my center. . . Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.
The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.
the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood. . . is the hardest lesson of all.
I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.
Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.
Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything. . . It is one of those delusions that isn’t called insane only because there are so many people involved.
You cannot change the outer event, so you must change the inner experience.