We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Love is the creative force of this universe.

Be control of your mind.

I'm on a quest to claim absolute victory on every front.

If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.

Through Sahaja Yoga what happens to you, that you become a collective personality.

Stop dragging my heart around.