The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out so it accumulates through the years.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

I must follow them. I am their leader.

There is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurity of the vision. It is indeed illusion [mithyatva]

...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

Happiness is when you are content with who you are, what you are, and where you are.

…he’d assumed their relationship would go on forever. It was going on now, but in another way, like the rearrangement of the stars, which were all still in the sky, just burning in unexpected places.

Those people online are analyzing everything both of you do. Andre, every new song you're on gets scrutinized.

You could say science also is an art.

The terrorists hide behind Allah.

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.