“How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.”

“I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.”

“A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.”

“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. it begins in your mind, always.”

“It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.”

“Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.”

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”