“I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.”

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.

She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …

He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.

By unswerving devotion to Me, a man crosses over three Gunas – I am the Abode of Brahman, Eternal and Immutable, of everlasting Dharma and Absolute Bliss.

They hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting.

Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life – but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence. Those who have got the courage and wisdom to surrender themselves to a Perfect Master are the recipients of His Grace.

Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.

No harm will happen to the bounty of the sun, which is everlasting. This spirit has the power of discovery; it encompasses all things.