People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.

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

That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another.