The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is writing a novel right now. No one wants to revise.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed.

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.