There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a valuable human being if you work. This is utterly wrong. Half working, half dancing - that is the right mixture. I myself have danced and played too little.

Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?