The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.

I don't think I blushed once in my entire life before I met you, " I say."There will be a lot of things your body never did before you met me, " he brags unabashedly.

Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life?

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.

I'd like to direct at some point. But I don't know because 10 years ago I would have never imagined that I'd be here. So in 10 years from now, I might be running a rodeo.

The more careless, the more modish.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

I learn from everyone by observing traits that makes them successful and traits that bring them down, and try to incorporate only the best traits into my professional career.

When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.