Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

I have nowhere to go and no place I’m supposed to be. Am I lost or completely free?

Listening is the key. The whole objective of a howl is to be heard.

The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong.

I have thick skin. I'm not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there's something I think might offend me, I don't listen to it.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.