The 330 million gods and goddesses of the Hindu culture act as placebo for the masses, just like other gods of other cultures do.

I am an advocate of godliness, not of god.

Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.

Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.

My mission is to make the external God of human society obsolete in front of humanity’s internal Godliness.

Prayers bring comfort, not change. Change requires tangible human efforts.

Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.

Act and opportunities will manifest. There is no such thing as luck. There is only causality. Are you strong enough to cause something to happen – that’s the question.

The agonizing flames of misery can turn the human heart inside your skull into a breeding ground for virtues.

Reality is a construct of chemicals.

You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live.

Faith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

What I don't know for sure is what's next for me - and I don't mind that. I know for sure that whatever happens will be interesting and will challenge and excite me.

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.

The older I get, the more centered I become and the more I think I really know about myself. What I know is that what other people do doesn't really have any effect on me.

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.