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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

It is a long road from conception to completion.

It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

I'm always looking to play the part that people don't think of me in.

It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of being abused or neglected.

It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those things that pertain to faith and salvation.

Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.