Archived Quotes

Truth is beautiful,

without doubt;

but so are lies.

I’ve always been interested in how people overcome obstacles.

Regarding marriage,

it somehow,

it didn't happen.

One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

I really believe that

everyone has a talent,

ability, or skill that

he can mine to support

himself and to

succeed in life.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Words are only painted fire;

a look is the fire itself.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

As we are, so we associate.

The good, by affinity,

seek the good;

the vile, by affinity, the vile.

Thus of their own volition,

souls proceed into Heaven,

into Hell.

Rameswaram has,

since antiquity,

been an important pilgrimage destination.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body;

in the evening,

only with his legs.

For 2,500 years,

India has never invaded anybody.

If the people remember

me as a good teacher,

that will be the

biggest honour for me.

I wanted to buy a candle holder,

but the store didn’t have one.

So I got a cake.

Don’t follow the path.

Go where there is no path and begin the trail.

Better it is to live one day

seeing the rise and fall of things

than to live a hundred years without ever seeing it.

Let us not be too particular;

it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Take all the courses in your curriculum.

Do the research.

Ask questions.

Find someone doing what you are interested in!

Be curious!

One way to keep momentum

going is to have constantly greater goals

Michael Korda