Why is it, " she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?

Have you noticed, " she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

For I know the plans I have for you, " declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV)

I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power.