The more I stole from him, the more I realized how much he had stolen from me.

But without a family, a man is nothing.

Don't waste your money on those American books. They're so yesterday. "I am tomorrow.”

You were looking for the key for years, but the door was always open.

Vishram is a building like the people living in it, middle class to its core. Improvement or failure, it is incapable of either extremity.

sardonic, seriocomic saga of the plight of India's poor.

Turning to his right, Danny saw a great fig tree sparkle in many places inside its dark canopy of leaves, like a thing that knew its own heart.

Entrepreneurs are made from half-baked clay.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books.

When it comes to work - hurry, hurry, hurry. When it comes to payment - delay, delay, delay. Caste, religion, family background nothing. Talent everything.

I am not an original thinker—but I am an original listener.

I was never born and I will never die; I do not hurt and cannot be hurt; I am invincible, immortal, indestructible.

They remain slaves because they can't see what is beautiful in this world.

Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.

My whole life have been treated like a donkey. All I want is that one of mine - at least one - should live like a man.

Being called a murderer: fine, I have no objection to that. It's a fact: I am a sinner, a fallen human. But to be called a murderer by the police!

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans.- Balram Halwai

I am a self-taught entrepreneur. That’s the best kind there is, trust me.

La storia della vita di un povero è scritta sul suo corpo, con una matita ben temperata.