I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. 

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I didn't read.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

If you emulate somebody, you may create an identity crisis for yourself.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Spirituality begins where worldly wisdom ends.