To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

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.

Money is ‘limited’ and people’s demands are ‘unlimited’.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands.

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