Deepak Chopra

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

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

A verse from the Veda says, ‘What you see, you become.’ In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Round numbers are always false.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn’t something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly – a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.