The greatest reward for your actions is not the respect you gain from others but the respect you gain for yourself.

I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

As long as there is the egoism of ‘I-ness’ (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards ‘my-ness’ (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

You have not failed until you quit trying.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.