A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

Now is the only thing that exists.

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.

Anything that I actually do drink myself or I do actually use myself, I'm going to be into promoting it.

All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.

My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulder.