A Gnani [the enlightened one] does not have to turn beads of a rosary

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

It was deflating to realize how much my own family's quality of life might improve if I replaced myself with a Fundamentalist stay-at-home daughter.

To air one's views gratuitously, however, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk, which may not be the case, and which, in any event, may not be relevant to the discussion.

We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.

Never trust people who've only got one book.

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. I like when it's really organic, so I try to knock it out in one shot.

The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not disappear or become entirely unimportant.

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.