You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.

Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

A loving heart is the source of all happiness, all joy and all bliss.

I yearned for everything long gone.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

The path to love is our spiritual destiny.

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.