If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

We never see ourselves as others see us.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

A man is literally what he thinks.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.