It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

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.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

We live in ugly times.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn’t get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

All you need is love.