Quotes from Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people's. (Are we all under this illusion?)

Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

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.

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.