When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.