Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.

I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.

It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles.

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA.

Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?