“Take time to leave cities, at least once in a year, and go to some natural place, hills, sea, jungles, rivers, where you see nothing but nature His creations. Where you only hear chirping of birds,...”

“Fear is the worst enemy of sex. If a man is afraid of something he will start losing interest in sex. And, eventually he may become impotent.”

“Even love becomes pain if destiny has some other designs.”

“Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition.”

“Whatever name civilizations give to the arrangement where a man lives with a woman, it is always better to call it a marriage.”

“Had the love been permanent, there wont have been divorces after love marriages. Had the love been everlasting, there wont have been bad blood in the family.”

“I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human a...”

“He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain like with cold water until you finally got up yo...”

“Sometimes, people dont need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.”

“When I think of New York City, I think of all the girls, the Jewish girls, the Italian girls, the Irish, Polack, Chinese, German, Negro, Spanish, Russian girls, all on parade in the city. I don't k...”

“I'm older now, I'm a man getting near middle age, putting on a little fat and I still love to walk along Fifth Avenue at three o'clock on the east side of the street between Fiftieth and Fifty-seve...”

“Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”