If everything appears meaningless then congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up.

Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja

When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

Unbalance so as to re-balance.

That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.

I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky.