The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Every man is his own hell.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

A true man hates no one.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

By indignities men come to dignities.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

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.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.