What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

If you have a sense of yourself, your mission, your belief system, those things will lead you to success

One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

I really think that to a lot of people hair is everything. Bad hair takes over everything, it really does. I think if somebody has bad hair it doesn't matter what else is happening.