I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

If my boyfriend finds me sexy, then I don't need that kind of male attention from anyone else.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.

Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

Everyone can experience loving himself and opening up to awareness.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.