The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

...grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost.

Familiarity, globalisation, cheap travel, mere weariness had diluted our sense of foreign-ness.

Mind what you mind. Do not just open the door of your mind to anything at all you don’t want to mind. Mind the things that get closer to your mind and mind your mind!

Affirm your life's destiny & purpose to ensure - both are graciously fulfilled.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else is going to. So go for it. Find what makes you happy and do it.

Remember that true beauty comes from within - from within bottles, jars, compacts, and lipstick tubes

...she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.

I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.