Independence didn't have to be exile.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

Everyone has got something to give.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

What we can do for another is the test of powers what we can suffer is the test of love.

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Krishna is God, so He's absolute: His name, His form, prasadam, it's all Him.

I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.

That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.

Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!