Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning. Any process of inquiry is related to learning. But basically our inquiry should be concerned with finding out what is transient and what is permanent. This is true knowledge.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
-Voltaire
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.
The problem’s name is God.
-Salman Rushdie