Driveway basketball, playing against the boys, watching Magic and Michael.

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.

In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know and understand, coupled with an openness to new experiences.