When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.

Her eyes filled. "He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago, " she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them." Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen!

Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.

I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.

I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for satisfaction as the current, more mysterious one.

We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.

I would love to see a G-Unit reunion.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.