told a friend I was going to write The APo4E Diet (Apo4e being the gene or chromosome or whatever for Alzheimer’s). She wrote back it would be a bestseller because everyone would forget if they had bought it already.

Ringo looks sad. George Harrison looks particularly upset. In fact, a few weeks earlier he and John Lennon had gotten into a fistfight and Harrison had run out and said he was “quitting.” “See you in the clubs,” he said as he left. The band debated replacing him with Eric Clapton but Harrison came back.

“To be experimental, first you have to know how to use all the rules of grammar. You have to be an expert first in tradition.”

India is a mess now, no matter what Gandhi did, but Gandhi provided a beacon while he lived.

One of Gandhi’s financial backers once said, “It’s very expensive to keep Gandhi in poverty.”

He practices “brahmacharya”—a form of self-control—outside of his relationship with the beautiful Lois Lane.

“In life, you will always have 30 percent of people who love you, 30 percent who hate you and 30 percent who couldn’t care less.”

We rob ourselves of our joy and happiness when we stop and check in with what everyone else is thinking and saying about us.

“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” — Gandhi