The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

And I can say that I’ll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat.

The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job!

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.