I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn’t allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do ‘everywhere adjustment’.

For appearances. Now there's a lovely thing to die for.

India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.

The past can be tamed and controlled.

Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.

Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.