The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!

Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it’ll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that’s the job your mind gave you!

The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.

I see that you, like many before you. The happiest person on earth would look in the mirror and see only himself exactly as he is.

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

I know there's a lot of guys who would love to see me fail. Well, good. Let 'em. I'm glad.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)

Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.