Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying

You don't win battles you walk away from.

I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.

We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.

Habits form a second nature.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

When I was young I thought: when I am 60 my necessities will be very different. As I get near that age, I realise they are similar to what they were when I was 25.

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear...but because of your love.

Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.