I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Forgotten is forgiven.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

I’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

It’s a real strength for me that I’ve never minded the training process. It’s something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

I became a beach bum.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Never find fault with the absent.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Confine yourself to the present.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.