Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.

So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.