Also I have an interest in spirituality and it opens-up so many different areas of Indian life.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.

It takes time to save time.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

I have to look at our staff and ask the hard question - Would I hire them again?

Theology without practice is the theology of demons

You don't want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you've got to get in there and protect it.