The past is certain, the future obscure.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic

If you practise deceit it will burrow down into dark places and change you. Spoken by Boaz to his daughter, Star.

If any person claims to have loved twice in all their life — they have not loved at all.

I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Every library is an arsenal.