Wisdom

Most things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

I guess it’s true what they say,' observed Jace. 'There are no straight men in the trenches.'That’s atheists, jackass,' said Simon furiously. 'There are no atheists in the trenches.

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.

Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.

Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.

If beauty was in the eye of the beholder, he was going to be one hell of a beholder.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Conquer no man but thyself.

Like many white liberals, Ken sees the “whiteness” of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.

Sadness is never bad,' said Amparo. 'Sadness is the mirror of being happy.

Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships.

Ambalal Muljibhai’ (Dada’s relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and ‘we’ (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

And I’ll stop with the lecture now. I don’t like people much—they irritate and annoy me. But I’mfascinated by them anyway.