A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . itwas all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.

A dog's spirit dies hard.