I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the...

Everybody has flaws, and every country has flaws. But you can still love something even though you know it's been so wrong before, and sometimes is now, and probably will be again.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings...

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but...

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Healthy people live with their world.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not...

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.