For man is by nature an artist.

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.

Life is supposed to be exciting, so journey through each day collecting moments and celebrating the right ones.

The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant.

Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.

We rise and fall as one people, one nation.

Sincere desire and worthiness invite the spirit of revelation into our lives.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.