Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Icarus should have waited for nightfall, the moon would have never let him go.

To live we must conquer incessantly we must have the courage to be happy.

When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.

I think, for all of us, enjoying time with our kids and our families helps us stay grounded.

I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.