"Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars."

"I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen."

"In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed."

"I do not like this word 'bomb.' It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding."

"Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date."

"God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry."

"Dinner theater is anti-culture."

"Many admire, few know."

"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."

"Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are -[but] unless you realize the Self (atman), there is no freedom."

"When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important."

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."