In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.

It took me two years to give him all of my heart, and he threw it away in one night.

You don't learn anything just by reading books.You learn only by receiving blows.

An oligarchy does not require a good and moral citizenry but a Constitutional Republic does. If we lose our moral compass, we lose our country.

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

When there is too much stress or worry, look within.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.