Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Time stays, we go.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

Be as you wish to seem.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

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.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.