Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

Time had changed the magical to mundane

…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don’t fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.