A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.

...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.

Allocating budgets will not suffice. We need to make focused efforts at developing the tribal belt of Gujarat

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

We need to think bigger, dream bigger, and get bigger.