Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

To increase the flow of kundalini that will alter our perception, it is necessary to clarify the purpose of one's being. This is to come to understand dharma.

Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.