In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

In India everything has a use and a value.

Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.

Reading Is Very Powerful.... It Gives You The Illusion To See The Past, Present, Future And Even Seeing The Invisible.... So READ....

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.