One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Love is a state of being.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

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.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

I like to look good, my friend.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Change alone is unchanging.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.