The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.

When one is painting one does not think.

Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without.

You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services

Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

I just tripped over a pair of shoes and almost fell down and broke my neck and no I wasn't wearing them.

In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees

When have you looked?" said Sophie. "Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches", Howl croaked.

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.

The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master and how hard people need to struggle to learn it.