Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection

The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and fundamentalism.

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.

To say I'm ignorant only proves your ignorance.

Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

I don't really regret much. I know there are things that I've done that have been wrong, and wish I could do over again, but I feel it's all made me who I am today, and I'm very thankful for that.

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.