A harem lacks variety compared to a woman with whom you are deeply in love.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.