"Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers."

"We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level."

"I am convinced that the law of non-violence has come to stay."

"To be truthful, you must be non-violent."

"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."