I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Each day has a color, a smell.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.

There were some feelings you never forgot.

Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet.

Our knowledge of shape and form remains, in general, a mixture of visual and of tactile experiences... A child learns about roundness from handling a ball far more than from looking at it.

Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.

People see what they want to see.

Theres nothing more difficult to do than comedy.