The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Each day has a color, a smell.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

Lovers, forget your love, And list the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze.

Things are not working for us because our focus is lost

Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

To love someone so deeply means also that it will hurt a thousand times more when he disappoints or leaves you

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.