To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.

History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.

Recognition motivates.

You can only destroy something that I have but you can't destroy something that I am.

Life must be enjoyed to be truly lived.

Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord's name But more is the one who knows by the Guru's grace.

Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.

Enduring, or carrying on, is not just a matter of tolerating circumstances and hanging in there, but of pressing forward.

Who is the most favored of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence.