Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.

The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.

Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.

Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives.

Truth is always a quest and if it looks anything like a destination, it is proof that we are on to illusion. Thus, unique is each quest!

Whether morality is moral is an open question.

Success doesn’t come from motivation. It comes from Inspiration. -RVM

Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral 48% indignation and 50% envy.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.

Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.

I'm an emotional guy, so I don't have to worry about a girl trying to get me to open up.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.