I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.

Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

What I set seems to never extinguish

The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.

You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.

The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.