It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one thing missing: you.

Slow down. Life is crossing the road.

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centres of Consciousness I am using and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all of the centres of consciousness.

Everything is worship if your mind is focused on the present moment.