But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.