Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I dreamed of you every night. It felt so real. And when I'd wake up the next morning, it was like your disappearance was fresh. Like you'd left me all over again.

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

At the end of the day, the biggest obstacle to evangelism is Christians who don’t share the gospel.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

Better is to bow than break.

Allocating budgets will not suffice. We need to make focused efforts at developing the tribal belt of Gujarat

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.