I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Children always turn to the light.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.