There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

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.

Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Just change your attitude and perception to change your life.

He sounds exactly like Moody, " said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls....

There will be no sickness for the saint of God. ... If your body belongs to God, it does not and cannot belong to sickness.

Increasingly we're seeing these ultra-partisan sites getting larger and larger readerships because people are self-selecting themselves into communities.

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

Control the things you can control .