Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.

I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.

But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.

The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body.

There's a powerful tendency to overcomplicate the whole notion of leadership.

We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.

When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.

Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal.

I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.