Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize.

If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.