Skill is fine and genius is splendid but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

This’ is not called a religion, ‘This’ is called a science (vignan). Religion keeps changing, science does not change.

When our sensitivity to feel pain decreases, so does our sensitivity to feel joy with it.

The treasures in you must never be threatened by the gifts in others.

Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability.

There are men who are happy without knowing it.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

Christianity is a fighting religion.

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.