A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return

For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.[Trans. Purohit Swami]

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

The existence of everything around me was overturned by her solid presence. I couldn't see a thing other than my girl---magnetizing me with her absolute, authoritative pull!

As a younger person you can come in through many, many gateways. It's like some huge Mandela. You can enter into this and get refreshed.

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

I love women like Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, who kind of go out on a limb and do their own thing. I find it very inspiring and it allows you to do what you want to do.

While wishing a beautiful snowing for the streets of your city, do not forget also to wish a warm house for the homeless!

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.