“I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!”

If you have a guru, leave him; if you don’t have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean’s wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

If you want to give an advice to someone, you must first be somebody.

For a great willpower, no road has length!

Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!

Sincere wishes come true.

Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!

Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.

Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That’s also the secret of why some head of states look brave!

Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!

There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.

I don’t keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

May God protect us from all the religions!

On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.

A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.

In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.