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The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.

If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.