Every human creates his own imagined version of the world, and of himself. Every human is therefore Brahma, creator of his own aham.Aham Brahmasmi, I am Brahma. Tat tvam asi, so are you.

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.