I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?"

One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help.

When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself.

Happy people plan actions they don't plan results.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

Despise (viradhana) of a Gnani [the enlightened one] creates hindrance in (acquiring right) Knowledge-Vision-Conduct (Gnan-Darshan-Charitra).

Some memories find a permanent place in the heart, and we remember those times as being sunlit and beautiful

Religion is the product of organizations called churches

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.

Success and failure are terrible traps.

The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.