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The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.
A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.
The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.
but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give
Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.
Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.
Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.
You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.
I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.
I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.
We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.
Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.
when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.
So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.
We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child
I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.
Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around
Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.
I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?
You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.
A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.
The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.
People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.
The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.
Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.
There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.
If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.
One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.
None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.
Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.
You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.