When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.

Compassion is the religion of the heart.

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

Nobody should get married at 17.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

There's nothing that I buy that I don't wear.

I am alone with the masses.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.