Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

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.

There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

In foreign policy it's not necessary to have similar views to have a conversation.

A little magic can take you a long way.

Even mistakes can be wonderful.