Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.

Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.

. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go.

A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.

Do something purposeful and wise so that when God sent his blessings, they will fall on it.

The only things I can’t offer you are children and politicians: the first is illegal and the second is expensive

The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should be taught and how the subject should be approached.

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.