"It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have."

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

"Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that."

"The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble."

"The foundation of joy is the journey is far more important than the destination."

"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."

"Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety."

"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."