The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get involved in that.

We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.

The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.

I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism.

Pluralism isn't just diversity; it's something we create out of this diversity.

I guess one of the things that is an advantage of the world in which we live is that I can at least I can have multiple homes. I can have that attachment to Montana and to Cambridge and to India.

The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

Be prepared for changes.

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

The failure of the nation lies in the failure of its citizens.

Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose.

Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the most cruel.

Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.

Why don't people just accept that life is sad and cheer up? After all, it's not going to last for ever.

All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.