No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Always blame conditions, not men

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

To get wealth and security by guile Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.

The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.