Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.

We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...

If you can imagine it, we can make it.

When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels in a popcorn popper in the dorm room.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

When fear replaces faith, remember prayer.

I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.