Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.

If the woman has the physical fitness and the meritorious luck to bear his children, the family was a fortunate one. Villagers always looked at sterility with a squinted eye, and its fault and the misfortune lay solely on the woman's part. As such, a chil

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers.

You want to count, Gabrielle? One! She sucked in a breath, mad enough the words slid right out. You asshole, one!

Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)

In order to love others I need to be full of it myself

My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold,my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your forehead,love, I love you because you are clear and dark.

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

While I was in India, my yoga teacher asked me to start teaching, and my life became about that for years. I taught 18 classes a week, therapeutics, and traveled to study with other teachers.