When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more.

If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

There is this pain of love. You experience it some moments. It starts like a strange gnawing at your heart. It then slowly spreads. Spreads to the whole body. You fall deeply into it. This feeling.

It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

Abandon your resentments, they keep you small.

Both within the family and without our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled. “Shoo,” Eric said, making an imperious gesture with his hand.

Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

I love body parts, especially hands.

Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.