You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

When you see the members of your household as faultless (nirdosh) and see only your own faults, then true pratikraman will be done.

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.

We all fall in love with the idea of a person, and then as time goes on we either accommodate ourselves to the real person or we don't.

There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

Wow. Imagine what God could have done if he'd had money.

You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.