Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.

Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it.

What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.

The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

We're all the same in different ways

Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.

In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.

I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen.

I love to doubt as well as know.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

Since I was a kid, I've been a dancer, and, of course, I'll always be a dancer till the day I die.

I drink alone in my study, huddled close to the brazier.