Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

If I am looking for inspiration, then I read the religious scriptures.

I seek daily a spiritual awaken of my soul.

To become God (Khuda) one does not need weapons. One needs to recognize his [True] Self (Khud). The one who knows one’s own Self (khud), is God (khuda).

Who's got the last laugh now?If you will pardon the expression.

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat.

If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first.

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.