Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can’t help but glow.

Some of the things that contributed to my positive attitude were rejoicing, smiling and acknowledging every small step I had made.

This was home. This was perfection. This was everything he'd never known he wanted. (Griff)

One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

If you meditate with a teacher who is enlightened, you can ride with them into stages of mind that are perhaps not available to you at this time.

Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.