If you don't talk to strangers, your life is so limited. If you're careful about what you eat, you'll never try anything adventurous.

Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.

Stay away from Europe, stay away from Japan, Australia. If you go to the Western world, you're gonna pay more money. You can spend five months in Bali for what you'd spend in one month in Europe.

I don't worry about being a woman alone out there. My advice to people is to smile a lot, talk to strangers, accept all invitations and eat everything you're offered.

I don't want to be responsible anymore. I don't want to have plans. I just want to float through the world.

There were times that the kids were upset I wasn't there, those three times a year they needed me. The rest of the time, I'm sure that I wasn't in their thoughts.

I came back once or twice a year to visit my family, and then I would take off again. In the beginning, I think everybody thought I would get over it and get it out of my system. And I never did.

Eat where the people eat, not the hotels and touristy restaurants. If a local teacher makes $50 a month and they're living decently, see what they do.

In an unforgiving world, chaos rules.

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.

Within a few years the name 'Maria Sharapova' will be a brand as universally recognized as Calvin Klein, BMW and Rolex.

I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.