There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

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.

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

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.

Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.

You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I’m not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like talking someone out of a seizure.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.

If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do?

When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.