“perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.”

“Yes, we are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously....”

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”

“It's impossible to fear and love God at the same time. Simply, because you can't enter into heaven and hell at the same time!”

“No one can love God consciously in his heart unless he has first feared Him with all his heart. Through the action of fear the soul is purified and, as it were, made malleable and so it becomes awakened to the action of love.”

“Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.”

“She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.”

“No one actually brought me any money. But there were many commitments made…Chandraswami said he knows some Sultan. He wanted me to contest for the second time. Somehow, this fellow had a dislike for Rajiv perhaps because Rajiv refused to encourage him.”

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

“One cannot love God without fearing him, any more than one can love one's neighbor without respecting him; not to fear God is to prevent Him showing mercy.”