Eyes which feast on the beauty of the world will always look beautiful to others. That which receives beauty exudes it as well.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

What I truly desire to do, I shall dare attempt.

First opportunity is the golden opportunity.

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it

As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world