Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." _Mark Twain (Author)

It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.

KIM: It means something, and when I do it, I don’t want to wake up in the morning, wishing I’d not done it.

Creative energy is more critical than learning.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.

Kirpal's left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers of his daughter, a wrinkle at the edge of his eyes behind his spectacles.

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.