Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it there will be fish.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Life is fulfilling when you are being productive

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.

Nothing can come of nothingness, the granthi had said. So to know joy, compassion, sympathy - to feel love - means also to have in the world their opposites.

Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.

Earth and air, fire and water, the stars in their courses, the high tide of destiny and the Will of divine Providence are all arrayed against the forces of oppression. -- Louis Gregory

I find I'm luckier when I work harder.

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

Where your life ends, your being doesn’t. Where your being ends, you don’t. That is what is able to have and move your forms.

And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.