Life is at its best when it’s shaken and stirred.
–Reader’s Digest, Jan 96
Build me my ghats, the river, the life as I know it, in the backyard and may be I will stay back
–Ustad Bismillah Khan, turning down an offer of an American connoisseur to stay in the US
The unexamined life is not worth living.
–Plato
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
–Readers’ Digest, Jun 91
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
–G. K. Chesterton, Readers’ Digest, Jan 92
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
–Danish proverb, Reader’s Digest, Dec 95
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
–Reader’s Digest, Jan 96
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple, and useful life.
–Booker T. Washington