When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control.
When I smiled my relief and surprise, the man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.
We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone else's.
Twierdzę, że rzeczywistość, taka, jaką znamy, jaką zna ogół, to nic więcej niż iluzja. Za tym, co widzimy oczami, istnieje inna rzeczywistość. Trzeba ją rozpoznać sercem. Nie ma innego sposobu.
They're (kids) so... innocent. Except that they're not. They know exactly what they want, and they don't stop till they get it.
They couldn't understand that every time I entered the slum I felt the urge to let go and surrender to a simpler, poorer life that was yet richer in respect, and love, and a vicinal connectedness to t...
They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed.
They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.
There’s a dark feeling—less than hatred, but more than loathing—that ugly men feel for handsome men. It’s unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it’s always there, hiding in the long shadow thro...
There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only reall...
There is no objective and universally acceptable definition of good and evil. And until we have one, we will go on justifying our own actions, while condemning the actions of the others.
The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, is that it works so well.
The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told!
The weeks I’d spent in Bombay with Prabaker had taught me that the shaking or wiggling of the head from side to side—that most characteristic of Indian expressive gestures—was the equivalent of a forw...
The smile he gave me was warm, but he was still wounded by his mother's death. There was a hollowness in his eyes: a black hole of shocked grieving that swallowed all the questions and released no ans...
The size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head.
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There’s nowhere else in the world...
The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.- Karla