I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.

Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there.

Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...you could just get BETTER. What do you think?

The madder it makes you, the harder you need to laugh at it.

I don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever...

How far can your imagination take you? I don't know. That's up to you, but I think you should find out.

Don't go downhill just because it's easy. The view is only visible from the top.

Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger.

Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.

I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that