Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.

Your life is a book

It is in the quiet that you gain perspective when you have to deal with the loud.

When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

There is one thing that 99 percent of 'failures' and 'successful' folks have in common - they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.