Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Weeping is terrible for the complexion, ' said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, 'but it is very good for the heart.

[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.

The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.

The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!

I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.