“There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.”

“That's when it happened. An understanding, a new realization, cameinto her head and triggered a transformation that was almost total. Maybe this was how all learnign worked in the end. The right kind ofoncentration deployed in the right way at the right time. If youpaid attention and sorted carefully, put things in the right place at the right tiem, it was possible to think yourself away from yourself, away from the things you could not do.”

“You are to make your own way prosperous...Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.”

“Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.”

“There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.”

“He called you pretty...That's practically an insult, the way youlook right now...You're much more than beautiful.”