I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

I do like the world quite a lot.

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

My heart’s so light it floats and carries me so my feet don’t walk. I sing all day and I don’t mind the washing, and that’s how I know I’m in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat.

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

You can only destroy something that I have but you can't destroy something that I am.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Right now, I'm just a girl, and there is also magic in that.

To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.

I've never felt as happy as I've been for the past month. And I've never loved anyone like I love you right now.

Where there is Dharma there is no karma. So we have to lean on Dharmic values and we have to build a Dharmic family, we have to relate to that family and we have to relate to it deeply.

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

For me, my music has always been like an open diary.

Beauty lives with kindness.