If you want to surrender to creativity, surrender to creation.

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation

Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.

Trust your intuition. It is the best friend you will ever have.

Remove the emotional and physical clutter from your life so you can soar.

Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.

Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.

The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have.

Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

What an ambiance, and such a pity I'm alone: Candles giving off their glow, gusts of wind and the light tapping of rain on the windowpane - a massage for the mind. And a comforting one, too.

although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic.

For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.

Nature is accustomed to hide itself.

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.