Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Education opens our minds eye to see the world with our own unique vision and perception.

...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.

Seenu rang the gong, and the eyes shut themselves in silence, and the brahmin heart and the weaver heart and pariah heart seemed to beat the one beat of Siva dancing

I have a bad grammar, but I do have a good message in it.

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

I can stand out the war with any man.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.