Play is experimenting with chance.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Each and every generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion

We came into existence with nothing. And, when our spirit departs, we will take nothing out of world.

You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.

I didn’t intend the book as anything therapeutic and I don't think that’s a novel’s goal or responsibility.

You think all teenagers care about are musicians and movie stars?Spend some time in Wisconsin.We'll blow your socks off.

When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.

Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.