A person’s stature ought to be measured not by how tall he has grown but by how often he has had to bow, and how low, in the process.
When a completely disabled Stephen Hawking questions the concept of god one cannot fail to admire his belief in atheism!
If the soothsayers of the yore were prophets because they prophesied correctly, then what are today’s astronomers and other scientists?
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Those who criticize you acknowledge that you are too important for them to ignore you. Empathize, rather than hate them!
No one is above taking bribe. And most certainly no one above giving it. Only the labels, the form and the manner change.
Pack sacrifice, courage, detachment, commitment to truth, altruism, contentment, stubbornness in one person and celebrate Gandhi Jayanti.
Forgive but do not forget, be generous but not cowardly, punish but do not take revenge, disagree but avoid hate.
Scarcely a day passes when something doesn’t pinch me with this realization: What a goddamn idiot I must have been to make this mistake so far, or to not have known this, or that, until now. My, my, we don’t ever cease to learn.
Confuse not success with peace & happiness. The most successful often hide their acute, deep pains successfully!