I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. 

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the meaning of realising Him.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Let your life lightly dance on the edge of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Those who seek realities in this world of illusions are likely to be disappointed at times.