"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love."

"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself."

"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."

"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."

"The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment."

"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."