one of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

...and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the painin the world had found a voice

It's chance, I tell you, ' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.

And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

If you want to change the world, make something beautiful.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.

A great song will say how you feel better than you ever could.

There is no breakthrough without a breakdown.