When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.