Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share.

Until our hearts find complete security and significance in God's unconditional love, we will never be satisfied.

Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.