The world is a Bridge, pass over it, but build no houses upon it. He who hopes for a day, may hope for eternity; but the World endures but an hour. Spend it in prayer for the rest is unseen.

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.

It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.

You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.

Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.

If there is ONE THING that you do today, let it be this...Don't take life WAY too seriously.

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.