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“No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect. ”
“Why Arjun? His target was to hold me captive; he did not unleash mayhem destruction on our army. His promise to Drona did not encompass insulting me; there were no derisive taunts as he escorted me to Drona. It is a rare trait in a warrior, even rarer for someone so young and almost an impossible trait in a young warrior winning his first ever skirmish. Success is more difficult to handle than failure. This is an exceptional man.”
Tears are infinitely more precious than blood. Blood spurts from the body; tears stream from the soul.
There is nothing poetic about death.”
It was difficult to doubt a person who practiced what others only preached.