The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

Others are responsible for their actions toward you, but you are responsible for your reactions. Always be considerate and kind with your actions.

The greatest hunter is one who knows how to wait.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.

I'm a huge pasta and pizza lover. I can eat those every single day.

I'm a little territorial and defensive.

Promise you'll think of me every second?

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.