Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

Achieving success is a challenge but so is struggling so you may as well choose success.

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Interfering in the worldly life is impure action (ashuddha vyavahar).

Life is a sacred spark of divinity.

The stories we are destined to tell find us.

Life is sacred breath.

We just start putting our ideas out there, yet how do we actually attack contemporary problems? We do what some of the most successful American businesses do. We outsource and collaborate

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.