Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted"-Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

But now, here she was, very wishful to pray, while not knowing how to explain her dilemma: ‘I’m terribly unhappy, dear, unprobable God—’ would not be a very propitious beginning.

For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

We know the things that are not good and are right. Those things that we know are wrong, we've got to fix them.