Events come of their own – although one wrongly thinks that these can be shaped or directed by individuals. What you can really control is your reactions to them.
Soon I was far away from the landscape that was familiar to me. I had no one whom I could call my own, so the whole world was mine.
Throw away your ignorance and grow up. It is never late to begin – start now.
Be practical. What you have is good enough. What is unreachable may not be good. It might even be worm-eaten.
It is unfair to laugh at anyone’s misery. Help, if you can; stay away, if you can’t. Just don’t sermonise.
It is a funny thing about memory that whenever one is in a crisis, every bit of information associated with it rushes to the front.
Give up your curses, abuses and spitting, and be free. Learn to love all. In that lies your freedom.
There is nothing like fear to galvanise you into action.
People do not realise that the best way to make a person bow his head is to praise him.
Experience gives knowledge, and knowledge is strength. Strength is peace, and I was at peace.
If you did anything, then you rushed towards destruction; if you did nothing, then you waited for destruction to come and meet you.
Stay indifferent. Involvement kills, indifference frees.
This is life. If you take it lightly, you remain a dud; if you take it too seriously, you are doomed.
We encounter what we create, and we create what we want. No experience is a waste in life.
It’s better to live and die, love and quarrel with your own.
Too much of closeness generates heat – which at times breaks relationships, but at other times also forges them.
Luxury of freedom hates the discipline of knowledge.
Crisis is the portal to new opportunity.
Strength is weakness and weakness is strength, these are one and the same. Push one’s strength beyond a point, and it will become the cause of his destruction. Similarly, the strength of a person lies in his weakness. Push weakness beyond a point, and it becomes his strength.
Calmness comes when a person is face to face with oneself. Tenderness and whispers are signs of nearness while shouting and screaming signals distance.
Unselfishness is Purity.