It's been hard. My mother is proud of me, but her reaction swings wildly from day to day. I don't really take her point of view. I'm hard on her. And that's hard to read.

My parents created their own war.

There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.

Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that knowledge away.

A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.

Yoga is about how you live your life all of the time.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.

Without quietude you cannot enjoy the cool vibrations of the Divine.