If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

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.

Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them.

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

The only time you should look back in life, is to see how far you have come.

The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations.