If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.

If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.