Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

Granville did not come to enquire after me, as I had known he would not. I had always considered him made awkward by painful emotion, but now I considered that perhaps hew as only unfeeling.

The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.

Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.

We'll build safe zones which is something that I think all of us want to see.

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

We’ve got to give people room to have a bad day.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.

I will not live without love.