The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.

Soon, the two of them would leave this spot. . . walk into the house and into a whole changed world. . .

Water has no hands, but carries great ships.Air has no shoulders, but carries large planes.The Sun has no eyes, but finds its way around the universe.

"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

I love England - it's no secret.

Hope for the best and make peace with the rest.

Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders