Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

I've discovered the secret of revenge. Outlive the f---ers! I'll dance on their graves.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.

The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.