I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.

The never-ending ache of love and sorrow.

See yourself in a mirror, you are a human first than anything else.

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all