Quotes

"The traditional notion of God
is outdated. One can be spiritual but not religious. It is not
necessary to go to church and
give money — for many, nature can be a church. Some of the best people in history did not believe in God, while some of the worst deeds were done in His name.”

Pope Francis, forwarded by a reader

"I do convert but convert you to
be a better Hindu, better Muslim, better Catholic and better Sikh. Once you have found Him, it is
up to you to do what you want.
Conversion is not my work.”

Mother Teresa as quoted by her
biographer Navin Chawla, The Times
of India, February 26, 2015

"People say I am not choosy,
I do anything for money. What the hell do they mean by that? Any
fool can do a terrific building,
given everything. Enough land,
a huge budget, complete control over design. It is in hardship
and constraint, working with
restrictions and scanty
resources, that genius shows.”

Hafeez Contractor, architect, Verve
Second Quarter 2000, clipping
submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi

"When a sandwichwala makes a sandwich, he puts butter, chutney, cucumber, tomatoes, beetroot,
potato... the works. The bread should hold all this, and people eating the sandwich should be
able to pick it up without the
stuffing falling all over the place. Wibs is made keeping in mind
how people treat their bread.”

Hoshang Irani, co-owner, Wibs, on why the bread is popular with sandwich makers,
DNA, January 11, 2015

"A cookbook is only as good
as its poorest recipe.”

Julia Child, chef, author and TV personality, Reader’s Digest, January 2015
"Our investment decisions have always been very cautious as
any small or big mistake will
directly result in losing our own cash as we do not have public money to blow and do not want to create large debt either. As a result, we grew very slowly
compared with many others.”

Adar Poonawalla, executive director and chief executive officer, Serum Institute of India Ltd, Mint, February 18, 2015

"Observe how all things are continually being born of change; teach yourself to see that Nature’s highest happiness lies in changing the things that are, and forming new things after their kind. What-
ever is, is in some sense the seed of what is to emerge from it. Nothing can become a philosopher less than to imagine that seed can only be something that is planted in the earth or the womb.”

Book 4; 36, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, submitted by reader Rustom Hathi