Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

From what we cannot hold the stars are made.

Your absence has gone through me

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

In these writings, and in all my teaching work, I continue to ask the question, “What about the children?

The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.

People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.

You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.

Every human being in the human form has limitations.

A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.

When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you?

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose