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"Don't agonize, organize."
"Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud."
"We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference."
"No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective."
"Our own life has to be our message."
". . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first."
"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."
"I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing."
"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one."
"Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal."
"My mother is a walking miracle."
"I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation... time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock... I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us."
"If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves."
"If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all."
"Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed."
"If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."
"I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?"
"Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it"
"Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured."