We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Great is the Lord’s provisions

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

Many wealthy people donate, and while the skeptical may claim that they do so for tax breaks, there is another reason involved … as a spiritual practice.

I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

We cannot constantly supervise everyone in football ...you cannot ask everyone to behave ethically.

I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.