Because we cannot scrub our inner body we need to learn a few skills to help cleanse our tissues, organs, and mind. This is the art of Ayurveda.

A peculiarity of the nature of your mind is that, in contrast to your physical constitution (dosha) that is fixed from birth, it can be altered through discrimination and choice.

People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting.

Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.

Motherhood furnishes us with, not just giving life — but, partaking of life’s learning.

Who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining?

Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.

Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

If another person were to enter the building, it would once again be empty.

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.