Persistence and passion will make you invincible.

Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you.

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.

One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

Stay away from Twolegplace!!!!

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

[On yoga] Once you've completed a wonderful class, you get a sense of the deepest, purest part of yourself. You feel like you are connected to everybody else in the world.

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.