There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. To fulfill one's duty elevates the soul to a state of constant sweetness. Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

A sudden splendour seemed to kindle day
A breeze came breathing in a sweet perfume
Blown from eternal gardens, filled the room.

Although life is a matter of indifference, the use which you make of it is not a matter of indifference.

After listening to Masih and watching what's happening in the streets of Tehran, and though it pains me to say it, if only Russian men were as brave as Iranian women!

Chanchal Chowdhury as the mysterious prisoner alias David Adam

I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

I was already singing by the time I was six years old. My neighbors would ask me to sing at festivities—marriages, baptisms, etc.—and they would give me presents. In 1973 [when I was 15], I went to the Institute for the Young Blind in Mali to learn Braille. When I was there I taught other people how to sing and dance.

It's a tragedy that a lot of people know more about Shakespeare than about Cao Xueqin.

It'a highly profane parody of my song and therefore, I am telling my staff to call radio stations and demand the song be banned from airplay.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.

I didn't ask to be secretary of balloon doggies, the balloon doggies demanded it!

Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see?

Voice of India through Ram Swarup, Sita Ram Goel and Koenraad Elst provided the main intellectual defense of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement starting thirty years ago. Their contributions were very important in sustaining it.

It is a remarkable fact in the history of geometry, that the Elements of Euclid, written two thousand years ago, are still regarded by many as the best introduction to the mathematical sciences.

In arms even it is best to attack hearts rather than cities; to fight with sentiment is better than to fight with weapons.