Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others’ own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.

Money as the sole ambition has no value.

An infinitely unpleasant fraction of a second is a small price to pay for the opportunity to stride across eternity.

The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.

It takes a lot of practices to get it right. The key is to keep practicing.

When you feel over confident, check if it is your arrogance speaking to you?

Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power

You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.

Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman!

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.