There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.

The gift of literature is the grace of knowledge.

It is called as ‘discharge’ (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes.

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

That's your mom, right?" Pathik smiled. "She looks nicer than she did when she was dragging you away the other night.

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.