Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Master your mind and you'll master the world around you.

I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed.

If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.

I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.

I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands.

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.