We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Remember that you don't owe anyone an apology. You are who you are, you have no choice, and that is beautiful.

To take a stand on IP, India needs to have a stand first.

It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.

She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.

Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

Every call you make, every door you knock, every friend you register to vote could make the difference.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd.

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.