For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case... HEART might stop. MIND can forget. I Love them with my Soul. SOUL never stops or forgets.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."

To be happy is to be healthy.

My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

I am grateful to the Germans in general, particularly those who displayed unending dedication to the refugees and who continue to do so.

The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.