I don't know what frightens me more

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.