When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
-Robert M. Pirsig
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
-Nikola Tesla
Those who are ignorant of the supreme purpose of life will never be able to attain nirvana (liberation) in spite of their observance of the vratas (vows) and niyamas (rules) of religious conduct and practice of shila (celibacy) and tapas (penance).
The most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
-William Thackeray
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes? The real life is within.
-Khalil Gibran