Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.

If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.