Gujarati Quotes

War is what happens when language fails.

It does not take a majority to prevail…

but rather an irate,

tireless minority keen to set brushfires of freedom

in the minds of men.

Everything is a compromise.

We will be remembered only if we give to

our younger generation a prosperous and safe India,

resulting out of economic prosperity coupled

with civilizational heritage.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction.

Fiction has to make sense.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Frugality drives innovation,

just like other constraints do.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

My first day in Chicago,

September 4 1983,

I set foot in this city,

and just walking down the street,

it was like roots,

like the motherland.

I knew I belonged here.

It ain't those parts of the Bible

that I can't understand that bother me,

it is the parts that I do understand.

The world hates change,

yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Nothing astonishes men

so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I’m a big fan of all

you can eat plans,

because they’re simpler for customers.

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

To be yourself in a world

that is constantly trying to make you something else

is the greatest accomplishment.

Nationalism is an infantile disease.

It is the measles of mankind.

There comes a time

when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge

but can never prove how it got there.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

If I were to try to read,

much less answer,

all the attacks made on me,

this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Instinct is a marvelous thing.

It can neither be explained nor ignored.