The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.

Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.

I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here.

Fashion is magical, a fantasy. It's madness, and it doesn't last. It's changing all the time.

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

Smiles are the soul's kisses.

'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia!

We are here to awaken to the reality of our true identity - that we are sparks of the Eternal Imperishable Spirit, who is the source of all Creation and the very essence of our being.