Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

Hopelessness makes you a futile wanderer. Hope makes your life a wonder

Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caricature is rough truth.

I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

In the past, it was expected that about three years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill would only know three, or at most five, kata.

Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.

Friendship can only be addition to, not a substitute for true love

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.