There, in the silence that's never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.

I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

Can we listen to each other the way veins listen to blood?

I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

I don’t know what’s gonna happen in 30 years, and that’s…awesome.

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.