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

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.

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.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

The admiration you lavish on others phenomenally reflects the respect you give yourself.

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

People meant to be together will always take detours through pain, misunderstanding and pride, but some how they always drift back to the one thing that makes them feel alive.

Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private.

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

Once you're a mom, whether you're kids are next to you or far away from you, you're always a mom.

Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.