Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.Without them, we are empty.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Dedicating time when I really can't afford to be I'll provide protection if you open up the door for me

Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

Never stop believing that fighting for what is right is worth it.

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

In a way, the characters often do take over.

I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.