I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.

The only limit to success is your own imagination.

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.

Ditch the dream and be a doer.

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

Meow” means “woof” in cat.

Often we can't find the power of life even when we're born with it

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

I'm still a little girl in Hawaii, I have the same friends I had when I was a kid who love me for who I am - not what I do. I never got caught up in the club scene or took wrong roads.

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!