I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

If one were to worship the Soul (self) for even a moment, he will attain moksha without fail. Such is the elegance of the body-complex (paudgalik ramanta) in this world!

Success come only through high ambition, good guidance, strong will, determining and effort.

Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love.

Wisdom simplifies the things

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.