“The best thing about being married and marriage is: when the two of you never feel that you are married or ever shall or ever were. You simply love one another.”

“Do people ever wonder about why it has been said that the mice shall play when the cat is away?”

“If silence were your only friend, know that the universe understands you. If solitude is your only company, know that loneliness has left you. Should fame and wealth find you -know that it is much better than your finding them. For you shall still have silence as your best friend.”

“Two wrongs never make a right. But that never means that you can continue with your wrongs.”

“In the story of the two quarelling cats and the monkey, no one asks the cake about its opinion. Then I would prefer to be the monkey and we would have an end-of-ideology and politics beginning right here.”

“Modernity is not divorced from spiritualism, though it is from the charlatan. The ascetic (renunciate) owns nothing - not even his or her ego - in the spiritual realm. The charlatan seeks to own everything.”

“Helen,' said she, after a thoughtful silence, 'do you ever think about marriage?''Yes, aunt, often.''And do you ever contemplate the possibility of being married yourself, or engaged, before the season is over?''Sometimes; but I don't think it at all likely that I ever shall.''Why so?''Because, I imagine, there must be only a very, very few men in the world that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.”