“Animal fight to defend their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves.”

“Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.”

“.. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.”

“Every human creates his own imagined version of the world, and of himself. Every human is therefore Brahma, creator of his own aham.Aham Brahmasmi, I am Brahma. Tat tvam asi, so are you.”

“Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.”

“If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.”

“There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.”

“It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.”

“A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snu...”