I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.

My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage.

Positive words are well spring of hope and healing.

Her mother and memory lapses were BFFs.

There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.

I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.