Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

No practice exists in isolation.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.

He would pray...for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

Whatever your orientation is, it is working on everything around you.

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.

The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live