...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

There is always something left to love.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly.

Yoga is just gymnastics for uncoordinated people.

Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.

If you wait until everything in your life is perfect before you begin something challenging and new, you'll be waiting forever. The best time is NOW.

For me, all of the data that is contained in your cell memory, and in your energetic field, is able to be picked up.

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

You're looking at each and every potential corner for an air bubble to escape. Absolutely! You're on the best of your game.

Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.

Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.