Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

Fall in love so madly that every leaf whispers words of love to your lover. Every raindrop explodes with only one word as it hits the Earth.

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

Cosmetic companies are trying to turn India into a nation of Albinos. No dark area on any part of the body. Except maybe our hearts. Got a cream for that?

Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?

Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.

I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.

Sometimes you can grow more in a shorter amount of time with the right company than years of soul-searching alone, or by living the same patterns you've lived for your entire life.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.

If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.

I find Mexico exciting to visit, but I think [it] is looked down upon. Mexico is not a very respected place, unless you're Mexican, and even then it's something of a love/hate relationship.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts.

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.