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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’d heard you were dead.”"I heard you wear a red lace corset, ” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric)

Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.

Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touchdown act like you've been there before.

Unlived dreams often show up in your body as disease. Go for the Big Wow. Life is short!

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming.