He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.

He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.

And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.

There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.

Coincidental to my leaving the company, I would like to make one request: that Nintendo give birth to wholly new ideas and create hardware which reflects that ideal.

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done.

Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish.