The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.