But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

Take down the walls.

We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.

Solitude is our greatest teacher

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

Seeing the small is called Clarity. Keeping flexible is called Strength. Using the shining Radiance, You enter the Light, Where no harm can come to you. This is called Enlightenment.

An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is the greatest power in this universe!

Things are different in the international relations between states. In this respect, I am neither a friend, nor bride or groom [of the West].