the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.