Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

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.

When you speak from your heart, the words ring true, but as you speak in anger, I'll only shed tears for you.

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.

I love what I do, and I never thought about doing anything else. I think my voice was bestowed upon me; it was a gift I was given. I just had to learn to understand how to use it.

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

Pooper scooper? Yeah, I've done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.