Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.

I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.

When working out, play your favorite music loudly for an extra boost of energy.

Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul . . .