Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Each day has a color, a smell.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

Loving someone always requires you to not love others.

Love is not about others

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

The map appears to us more real than the land.

It's not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs.

Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

The world is kept alive only by heretics.