The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is Unending. In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic Mahabharata, with Draupadi, their wife: allegorically, she is the mind and they are the five senses.

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.