Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet.

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.

We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference

Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you

True leaders are born when you find something to die for

Even fear afraid of faith.

Just surrender to the story.

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly what's deserved.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.