Quotes About Author

Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

The experience of happiness is a direct means of replenishing life energy and revitalizing the mind.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Your vigor for life appalls me.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.