A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.

— Anurag Shourie

An idle mind is a devil’s workshop, and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.

— Anurag Shourie

Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odors or the most gruesome of sights.

— Anurag Shourie

Be it a 'slide' in a children’s park, or one in the play-fields of life; the mantra is same. “You climb up and you slide down.” What is missing in the later years is the enthusiasm with which the kids run up the steps, knowing fully well that another down-slide is imminent. Life is a game; play it with gay abundance. Take a leaf out of the kid’s rule-book…

— Anurag Shourie

But that’s the way life is; felicity and expiation play together in the narrow lanes of life like bosom friends, inseparable. You find one, and the other is always around the corner.

— Anurag Shourie

Death is the only certainty in life. The moment we are born, our journey towards our final destination begins. It’s the beauty or the ugliness of that journey that defines our life; the distances covered varying in each case. Every flower that has bloomed in the free breeze of spring has to wither in the cruel icy autumn draft.

— Anurag Shourie

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.

— Anurag Shourie

Dharma is not about believing in God. It’s about making the right choices, doing the right things and leading the right life.

— Anurag Shourie

Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.

— Anurag Shourie

Everyone in this world is Abhimanyu, the difference being that most of us are trapped in a labyrinth of our own creation. It takes a lifetime for people to realize that the way out lies in their own hands. All it requires is a little introspection.

— Anurag Shourie