I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school I needed a notebook they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

In a world that is constantly changing there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.