In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

Fate is the name of a large bunch of myriad paths; we choose one out of these.

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out.

The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives.

To rule your mind, mind your rules.

Impossible is impossible. It is the only one-word oxymoron. But you need at least two words for that. Hence, impossible is impossible.

Life may be lived with a veil vainly attempting to hide its truth. The Painted Veil, as Somerset Maugham called it, does fade with time, if not raised earlier. If anything is more pathetic than its former self, it is the faded veil.

Flame is the lamp; rest is borrowed.