A wise teacher is a keen and true student of absolute beauty and truth, and he searches everywhere for them in nature with all his heart

It's no shame in reaching second or third base if you aimed for first base.

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...

We are barely conscious. With a higher consciousness we can open the door between infinite possibilities.

Even if a relationship doesn't work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what's around the corner.

In a world where globalisation wants to turn everybody into the same thing, I think that anything that allows you to go to another place or be in another world has got to be celebrated.

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.