"We have so many ideas about things we have never tried."

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

“Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Meditation. The body”

“I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right”

“The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.”

Source : Kenzaburo Oe (1998). “A Quiet Life”, p.98, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”

“I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I am the colour red, in a world of black and white and if you value your ability to breathe... Don't get too close.”

“The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.”

Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.72, Heinemann