When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.