"Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds."

“Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.”

“Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.”

“I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.”

“No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.”

Source : "Benazir, the steely and vulnerable" by Lyse Doucet, news.bbc.co.uk. December 29, 2007.

“Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.”

“…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.”

“But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?”

Source : Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.51, Random House

“Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.”