There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.

You can't succeed coming to the potluck with only a fork.

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

Living your yoga is not just doing it, but being it.

We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology.

I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.