We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.

Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof. It's a honey die list.

Putinsim is not necessarily the end state for Russia. Russia has moved in many directions since the early 1980s.

I did have role models, but most of them were male.

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.