No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

listen: there’s a hellof a good universe next door

It was a good apple too. A good apple, picked by a madman on a full moon night.

I'm in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.

Each of us is on our own trajectory – steered by our genes and our experiences – and as a result every brain has a different internal life. Brains are as unique as snowflakes.

Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

Only If there is devotion to knowledge, the 21st century will become India's century and the foundation of that will be laid by the 'Vanche Gujarat' movement.

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

Children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.