Choice, what people really want, is the most important thing. Choosing the life you want, making your own choices-that is what defines you as human.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Never underestimate the power of the ocean.

But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance.

Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.

I run or walk three times a week. I do Pilates, too, which is amazing - it makes you longer and leaner.

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.