We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.

The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.

I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism.

Pluralism isn't just diversity; it's something we create out of this diversity.

I guess one of the things that is an advantage of the world in which we live is that I can at least I can have multiple homes. I can have that attachment to Montana and to Cambridge and to India.

The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

Be prepared for changes.

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.

India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

The celebrity world can be so ugly. Everyone seems to have slept with everyone else and it's some sort of strange weird cycle. I don't want to get into that.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Faith builds, cynicism destroys.

Tweetin' ain't cheatin'.

And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.

They say I get into too many bunkers. But is no problem. I am the best bunker player.

People are always surprised by how much I love to eat. I guess I don't look like I eat that much, but I can put it away.