As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Jane sneezed three hundred dollars' worth of coke into the air.Krishna's black eyes seem to have mirrors in them. She glances at me with a smile as big as the Cheshire Cat's.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

Every great leader has a generosity gene.

Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerful.

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

God without us will not as we without God cannot.