You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.

It is not who will eat beans, but who will pick it that is scarce.

It is not age but experience that brings wisdom.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.