I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Let your soul be your pilot.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone. Well in everyone but Peter."-Tris Prior

He’d lived in the desert all his life, and he loved it. He was its child. It was his home.

Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

Sahaja Yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water.

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.