The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion.

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.

In our lives a dog is a dog rather than a former wolf, and it surely is not a cat, a difference that means an enormous amount to some people.

When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.

In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.

A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.