Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

Praying is a persuasive act.

Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

The only way that American troops could have stayed in Iraq is to get an agreement from the then-Iraqi government that would have protected our troops, and the Iraqi government would not give that.

If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

Give food to the birds, you will then be surrounded by the wings of love, you will be encompassed by the joys of little silent hearts!

The unknown is always interesting.

The brave are always stubborn

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.