Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will

If you do not work hard, nothing works.

All dreams have to come to an end.

If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms.

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

My father is an amazing fighter and what he's already accomplished is nothing short of remarkable.

With women the best aphrodisiac is words.

The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

Only poetry inspires poetry.