Be ready to face the worst. This will leave you with stability in your mind.

Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja

When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.

I don't sleep with happily married men.

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

In the distance someone is singing.