As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Each day has a color, a smell.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

You fault me for having standards?' Sebastian countered icily.'Not at all. I fault you for having two sets of them.'~ Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent & Cam Rohan.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.

Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.