Kaustav Banerjee

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“words are the instruments by means of which men and women grasp the thoughts of others and with which they do much of their own thinking. They are the tools of thought.”
― Norman Lewis, Word Power Made Easy - The Complete Three-Week Vocabulary Builder

“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated

“When the wrong principle is established as supreme—when a false king is set upon the throne or an impious ethos prevails—the people quickly find themselves deprived of the very water of life. More deeply, however, a kingdom oriented around the wrong pole—that worships the wrong gods, so to speak—suffers psychologically or spiritually.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine