“An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.”

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

There is always something left to love.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

It’s good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don’t step out of your gift zone.

I’ve learned the difference between being a good person and being a popular.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.