“Take time to leave cities, at least once in a year, and go to some natural place, hills, sea, jungles, rivers, where you see nothing but nature His creations. Where you only hear chirping of birds,...”

“Fear is the worst enemy of sex. If a man is afraid of something he will start losing interest in sex. And, eventually he may become impotent.”

“Even love becomes pain if destiny has some other designs.”

“Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition.”

“Whatever name civilizations give to the arrangement where a man lives with a woman, it is always better to call it a marriage.”

“Had the love been permanent, there wont have been divorces after love marriages. Had the love been everlasting, there wont have been bad blood in the family.”

“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”

“The barber's assistant asks if I am a Swede. An American? Not that either. A Russian? Well, then, what are you? I love to answer such nationalistically tinted questions with a steely silence, and t...”

“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”