What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth—nothing more.

People don’t talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary

…the world was a vale of tears—it always had been.

…there is faith and faith. One form of faith is actual practice—the rituals and so on—the other form of faith involves actually believing in it.

Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams—it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.

People will continue to doubt you until they witness first hand the results of what you have mastered.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.

They [Didier Dubot ] approached me to do a collaboration and I just couldn't say no because I really loved the collaborations they did before.

Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

I brought Bhagawad Gita as a gift for the Japanese PM...I don't have anything better than Gita to give & nor does the World has anything better to receive.

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?