In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. 

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and more. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

The irony is that some people who occupy important positions in the field of journalism may have no clue of the ABC of Journalism. 

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.