.. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.

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.

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

In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived.

To be heartbroken means to have a story

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

I've never had an interest, but baseball looks abnormal.

When you turn your back on hypocrisy and do nothing you don’t change the hearts of others you change yours.

I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.