The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.