The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.

It was the women of afghanistan, my mother believed, who-once they’d been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country

I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.

...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.

...mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less.

You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.

Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

The thing about Americans, ” she said, “is that you’re very concerned about everything all the time.

This is the need of the church today. The church is not in great need of miracles, gifts, teachings, or knowledge. Today the church needs the ministry of Christ.

You strip away every ounce of civility in me, Selene” - Levi

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

Sometimes there are those that have been dealt a bad hand at life and are dealing with some heavy issues. The least I can do is try to brighten a persons day.

If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.

The most important thing is to focus, focus, focus.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

I am confident that Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana will open the doors of good politics.