I'll have a lot of wrinkles on my face, but I feel like my heart will be fat and full.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

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

Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.

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.

When 9/11 happened, the world, certainly in the United States of America, there was a unity. There was this sense of unity. And I have to say just from a personal level, it really felt good. We all felt the same way.