When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

Grease is the word, is the word that you heard, It's got groove, its got feeling.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.

The Sellout is about friends and relatives who have touched me in real ways.