Killing life in whatever way, will drag you along the hell's way.

If their horoscopes are not compatible, this marriage is out of the question.

According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered.

Master Salamon usually set off a little later as neither he nor other male members of their community were in the habit of walking on the road alongside their wives.

The villagers considered it lucky to make the New Year's first money transaction with her because she was a prosperous person.

Even though we are supposed to be low caste and poor our vote also has the same value and validity as that of great people.

You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn't you say it’s okay to steal a loaf to feed them?

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

If you're turned away from one road, there's always another--filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones.

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on Doctor Who when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.