I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.

Conflicts need to be resolved at the earliest.

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

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.