The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

Anything is better than stagnation.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

No ghosts need

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

The ministry of Christ is related to fellowshipping with people

But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned out of our minds. That didn't have anything to do with happiness.

Nobody can walk with me in the same foot steps, but all can dream about it.

Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.

We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system.

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.

What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.