For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.

Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.