India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.

The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.

I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism.

Pluralism isn't just diversity; it's something we create out of this diversity.

I guess one of the things that is an advantage of the world in which we live is that I can at least I can have multiple homes. I can have that attachment to Montana and to Cambridge and to India.

The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

Be prepared for changes.

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.

No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.

If coffee is for closers, gold is for prospectors.

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a ‘total government.’ In short, we’ve got totalitarian government.

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.