“In life we must be willing to take risks, for that is the only way progress is attained.”

“It does not matter where one comes from, one can achieve even the greatest of things in life.”

“Any goal in life is attainable as long as one follows it consistently.”

“He who has patience, evidently what he pursues must ensue, and come to pass. To every man, this is what he must cultivate above all other things.”

“It is the man who loves reading books who gets to know himself”

“There are many ways to find meaning in life, one of them is the love of art”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.”

“Even God would say"Finish the task you have undertaken". He would never recommend breaking her mother's heart, damaging her parents' lives. "Your mother and then your mother and then your mother," ...”

“I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.”

“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you cant, youre dead”

“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebooka fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”

“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. Its the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”