A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

Whether they loved each other or not, they were lovers. And he was damned if he'd see her sucked into this brutal business.

There were moments when Szara suspected that many idealists drawn to Communism were, at heart, people with an appetite for clandestine life.

This is my idea of family, actually, a sticky morass you can't chew your way out of.

Living on purpose means stopping to make sure your actions still match your big goals.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

That's inches away from being millimetre perfect.