The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time, you are an honored guest. The third time you become family.

I have always believed that music can unite people, regardless of their differences.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.