There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

We're all human no matter what.

You can't claim to care about the welfare of children if you're shaming other parents for the choices they're making.

You don't just turn off your feelings for someone, and that's a very hard, sad truth for people. When you're drawn to someone, even if they're not good for you, you feel connected. In a lot of ways.

To Sachin, the man we all want to be.

Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.