Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Merely to exist is not enough.

I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.