Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Your time is diminishing per every second and minute that passes.

During anger, the parmanus (subatomic particles) are fiery and fierce and during greed, there are parmanus (subatomic particles) of attraction towards money.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.