Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

Everything happened to find the balance of Life.

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.

I've put myself in this position where I haven't set myself up with a Plan B. I don't have a safety net; it's all in.

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

The term "too big to fail" must be excised from our vocabulary.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

Loving someone is taking a constant risk with your emotions. When you find the right person,the one you know you want to be with, that person becomes worth the risk.

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

Tomorrows only exist in the minds of dreamers and losers.