Religion is more than rite and ritual.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

God created you to be a great, special, and distinguished individual among others, for you to accomplish that which God has put in you

True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

I believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated.

It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said. "Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said. "Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species.

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.