At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation.

When you're six years old, the word 'poo' is the funniest word on God's earth, but this insults my intelligence.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.

Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.