If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

Enemy from within is always worst than outside devils.

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.

School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.

I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.

Work hard on your job and work harder on yourself

You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

God gives everyone the same amount of talent. It's just up to you to korek (dig).