I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

True friends are always near, the Goddess said. Beneath the eyelids on a stormy night, around the bend in a wicked dream, hearkening to the future by the chimes of their companion’s call.

Close your eyes, and lo, they are opened! But never shall they close again.

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.

you've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her, and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.

Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you - if you are allowing your mind to wander during the empowered experience.

In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move