Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)

Even in societies where words are often strictly controlled, messages diverse never die. Resembling seeds scattered here and there, they find all manner of cracks and crevices to root.

War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.

Your dreams are expression of the scriptures.

Your wits make others witty.

The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.