“We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze.”

Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you

There are essentially two questions in life – a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is ‘Who am I?’ The material question is ‘What am I to do with my life?’ One leads to the other.

Life is the best and only timekeeper.

While you’ll feel compelled to charge forward it’s often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

Sometimes in life there’s no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space – between these apparent poles – life flows.

You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.

In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do.

There’s no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it – and get on with it.

People will ask you the question ‘how is life treating you?’ But my question is ‘how are you treating life?’ On that your happiness rests

You won’t ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

What people say and feel about you when you’ve left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.

The head thinks. The heart knows.

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our ‘self’, others and life itself.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

I am sort of anti-hunting. I don’t put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.

Fate pulls you in different directions

I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.

It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

I have inner peace. It’s a different person.