It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?

As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.