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

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.

God is the same everywhere.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

If you want to be happy, be.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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.

In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.