One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

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.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

I want the material I make to be mine; that's always the goal of the record and of the show.

There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.