I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.

I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.

There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought.