I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

There are people like me who are not there yet, who are still the eagle flying high right now, still experiencing more in the world and growing as a result of that - and that is my journey.

There is a role for growth and experiencing the world, and pushing the boundaries of that, and then there is a time to bring it within. All people are at different stages of that journey.

I think nothing, at an objective level, is either right or wrong.

When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.

What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.

I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is to be in the world.

What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.

It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day.

I think it's important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people.

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

When I am at my limit and hurting, I focus on the moment.

In every country, they make fun of city. In U.S. you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland.