death was the price of life.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire!

Reach out to the fullness of God’s grace strength for any accomplishment.

When ‘my’ and ‘I’ are gone, it is known as a state free of wrong beliefs (nirvikalp)!

Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, and it started off really early.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.