You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.

I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody?

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park.

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

I'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.