Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.