“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.

You were deafened by your own bewailing that you couldn’t hear love knocking on your door.

We listen less often because the sound of silence is deafening to us.

I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.

The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.

If you’re deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening in the world, you’re under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what’s happening and you don’t do anything but sit on your ass, then you’re nothing but a punk.