What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78)

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

[I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality. . . . (20)

Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.