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.

What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.

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

If you went to the headwaters of most rivers of the United States, you'd have a wonderful naturalistic hike or trek, but you wouldn't find a shrine there. At the headwaters of the rivers of India, they are pilgrimage places.

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.

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

Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.