What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.

Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.

My whole life had been an uninterrupted act of loving him.

There is no time for grief; there never is.

Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business