No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.

Run the race of life with all perseverance and endurance.

To follow a passion is to be consecrated

What is yours will be yours without any fight.

His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe.

Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads.

If I am not with my daughter, that's when all my meetings happen. That's when I get right on a plane. That's when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it's just all with her.

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.