Earth" is not too long an address. It is the parts which make us forget the way.

The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.

Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.

Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives.

Truth is always a quest and if it looks anything like a destination, it is proof that we are on to illusion. Thus, unique is each quest!

Whether morality is moral is an open question.

Love and kindness are the glue that holds us together.

Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life.

Pride and self-hate belong inseparably together

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.

My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.