A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Do not allow me to forget you

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.

How warm I feel. How icredibly alive and vibrant and heedless every last inch of me feels next to you.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.

Anything you think you "must have" usually comes to own you.

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

poets are born knowing the language of angels

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

Is it true? You had a clean getaway and risked it all for me?" I Swallowed. "It wouldn't have been a clean getaway without you.