Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

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.

Enthusiasm is highly contagious, so what are you waiting for? Contaminate your students

Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.

I associate wisdom and grace with age.

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals.

In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't really show respect for Chairman Mao.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.

We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.