I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. 

Thre is aen ond rderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything aevery being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the causes and prevention of disease.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. 

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. 

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

The kindness in our nature or behaviour can become the reason for our own defeat. So, with full rage in our eyes, we have to fight for the injustice which is happening to us.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. 

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. 

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.