"The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort."

"A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode."

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."

"There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy."

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere."

"The dog is the god of frolic."

"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."

"I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him."