His youth carried his words and lit the room with an optimism. “India is like our home, ” he said, “our spiritual home. Even before we get here there was that feeling.

I remembered Patel’s words, “Surrender is not giving up, it is worship.” “Show me how to step, ” I said, “so that it pleases you. Make me one with you and also this land. Be with me.

It comes back all at once: a woman on a beach, a tree, a wind that calms, a rain that cleanses, but does not wet.

Above us was a canopy, the stretching arms of cedar and spruce and Douglas fir. We knew to follow in silence, watching our steps, heads bowed. We were in a temple.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

I do not think there was anything abusive in my house. Yet, I stand by a lot of my critiques of Western parenting. I think there's a lot of questions about how you instill true self-esteem.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.

If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.