“If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.”

When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

The road up and the road down is one and the same.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Once the races begin it’s more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

Talking about world-class player, no player is easy to play at this level. Each player has a different style of play.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

I’ve always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.

No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.

My thought process is in Malayalam. So, every time I have to work outside Malayalam, the process is a little stressful. I have to translate my Malayalam thoughts into English and back to Tamil.

In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we’re always on the bike and it’s quite difficult.