“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly”

“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”

“Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.”

“Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.”

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”

“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...”