I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

Every stage of life must be well-lived.There are sacred moments to treasure in each stage.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing

We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

Each day is a day that God has given us, and each moment of that day is in His hands.

Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life.

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.

Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.