Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are.

Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.

When we assess someone's life or health on the basis of surface-level observations or passing comments, it presents us with a very flawed version of reality.

Yoga does not start or end on your mat, but is present in every breath you take.

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)

One's mutual responsibility to any individual determines the role of one person who he is.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.