Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.

In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

There is no plummet to sound another's soul.

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.

We fear pain so much that if the truth hurts, we embrace the lies.

You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.

There’s no preparation for poetry.

I haven't been very active in politics.

The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

I really do want to act, I love acting, and I want to do it in the long run.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.