Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.