One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.

I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace

God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

I will make you an offer you cannot refuse

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.