In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.