To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them.

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.

In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.

I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun rituals. Puja, of course, but simple, elegant and brief.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Too often we worry about how the others react-but it's YOUR reaction that they monitor.

Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.