Some books you read and savor. Some, you carry close to your heart.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them

The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.

Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.