1. Every day I sin. Every day I pray. Every day I am forgiven. Every day I find peace.
2. Some are wise by virtue of position, some by virtue of pressure.
Under the weight of rank, the force of pressure... wisdom grows.
3. The king of the streets with the arrogance of power snatches away at dusk all the coins from the blind beggar's plate.
4. Not a single letter of the holy scriptures knows the spell to extinguish fire!
5. The book that termites devour— its reader is a termite too!
6. The stone that hides in an ocean of sand is but a grain like the sand itself.
7. The rich man's dog wags its tail whenever it sees a poor traveler!
8. Even a bright red rose covered in black cloth ...is black!
9. Some spread butter on bread, others dip bread in butter.
10. The ant's home— whose fate is bound not by the ant's labor, but by the sole of a shoe.
11. Draw back the curtains, let darkness come.
12. In childhood to stop someone's tears the moon comes; for others...ghosts!
13. While eating stolen food, if a crow comes to perch at the window, toss some of the food its way.
14. Pressing their ears to the railway tracks, the street children listen for the sound of the future.
15. Why such cold even in spring? Who has grown old? Me? Or my heart?
16. Hold me tight! So tight that even the wind dare not pass between us!
17. The child keeps kissing father's portrait. Mother hides her tears in the fold of her sari.
18. Shaking with high fever the man deliriously mutters... Father, don't catch cold, put on your sweater!
19. Watching your parents grow old before your very eyes— is not misfortune, but fortune. Many never get the chance to see their parents age!
20. On a hundred-year-old wall clock time does not change. The boy who died young a hundred years ago does not age.