“Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.”

“As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.”

“The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius:Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge.”

“As the dew drop slides down the leaf to wet the soil, they call it "fall in love". Yet, do we know the way up from the way down?”

“If I do not agree with something or do not like something, it will be wrong to presume that I hate it. Presuming disagreement or dislike to be the same as hatred is stifling engagement. Disengagement leads to otherness, which leads to fear, which in turn leads to real hatred. Either we tolerate disagreement and dislike or we have to tolerate real hatred. The intolerance of disagreement is filling civil society lexicon with phobias each of which is leading to a disconnect, to another closed door. It may sound odd but only tolerance of disagreement demolishes walls. Doors and windows, open or closed, presume that there exists a wall, a wall created by intolerance. And doors and windows, if they exist, are closed too easily, at the slightest of pretexts.”

“Humans are like Variables in mathematics, some Dependent, some Independent. Variables are in relationship but remain Variable. Of course, there are some Constants too both in mathematics and humans. Constants help define precisely the relationship between variables. Maybe, that is why humans keep adding (to problems), subtracting (from happiness), multiplying (what else, we are all over earth) and dividing (the earth among themselves).”

“Of all creatures on earth, in proportion to their size and weight, humans have the smallest footprint on the ground and the largest on the environment.”

“Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.”

“One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job.”

“Religion can only be a means to a set of values cherished by its living adherents. If those values relate only to a past or a presumed afterlife, it is a sign that religion has become a goal serving the ends of a priest or a demagogue and rest of the living are merely tools to serve that end. If it is not to become a fossil, it has to be a living faith serving the cherished values of the living.”

“Earth" is not too long an address. It is the parts which make us forget the way.”