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

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.

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?

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

Give your trust sparingly and only to those who have earned it.

Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well - if you must.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.

Children are becoming disobedient why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film in a sentence or two.

The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.