Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens

Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja

When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night.

All that we are and will be, praise be to God.

The strength of the nation ultimately depends upon the strength of family and community.

Today I do affirm that I am Divinely guided...There is that within which knows what to do and how to do it, and it compels me to act on what it knows.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about!

I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.