Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.

Live life like a Legend, and society will start acknowledging you as a great Entrepreneur !

The power of faith overpowers fear.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.