We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.

Life is about making right things and going on.

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down.

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

Food is one part. Love is another part. So, the food will give them physical nutrition. The love and affection which you show, will give them mental nutrition.

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table.

Hijras are a sexual minority that is visible, and yet we are treated as the invisibles. I believe I was never invisible. I thought, "I'm the face in the crowd, not the crowd."

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams

It's a watch me watch you watching me kind of love

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.

Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction.

Do not go into trends. Do not allow fashion take you over, choose who you want to be and what do you want to show with your clothes and lifestyle.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.