With renunciation life begins.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Wisdom is the intelligent use of our knowledge, whereas sensibility is an intelligent use of our judgment.

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.

We are the slaves of slaves