Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

All things are dark to sorrow.

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

God is in people. Miracles and blessings happen through people

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

Deep down I'm a lazy person in a constantly moving body.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.

It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.

Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress.