I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Gunfire cracked around them. “Just warning shots, ” he yelled. “How do you know?” “We’re not dead.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

It is necessary that I should die for my people; but my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know that I was right.

It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

Dhoni is the best captain India ever had